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NASA's Aqua Satellite Launched

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-sued-by-apple dept.

the real manta writes "The latest in NASA's Earth science satellite missions, AQUA, was launched yesterday from vandenberg air-force base in California. Aqua carries the AIRS instrument which will be an incredible source of data for weather forecasting and studies of the atmosphere. There's an article here on space.com."

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  1. Aqua animations by dolsen · · Score: 3, Informative

    you can find a number of really cool (and large!) animations of the Aqua launch and deployment on the Aqua visualizations page. continuing coverage can also be found on Earth Observatory

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