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Key ocean mission goes into orbit PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 23 June 2008 17:29
Key ocean mission goes into orbit
A space mission that will be critical to our understanding of climate change has launched from California.

The Jason-2 satellite will become the primary means of measuring the shape of the world's oceans, taking readings with an accuracy of better than 4cm.

Its data will track not only sea level rise but reveal how the great mass of waters are moving around the globe...

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Space cameras to monitor forests PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29
Space cameras to monitor forests
Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled...
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Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms go Missing PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29
Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms go Missing
St. Louis, Mo. -- For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst...
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Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in our Galaxy PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29
Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in our Galaxy
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy...
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Excitement Builds as GLAST Readies Its Gamma-ray Vision! PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29
Excitement Builds as GLAST Readies Its Gamma-ray Vision!
Scientists around the world are excited about all the things that the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is going to uncover after it launches on June 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla...
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