NASA Launches Aura Satellite

Posted by michael on Thursday July 15, 2004 @07:02AM from the holey-moley dept.

ukcollin writes "NASA successfully launched the Aura satellite today after several previous failed attempts. The Aura satellite was launched by a 12-story Delta 2 rocket, at 6:01am (EST) from Vandenberg AFB in California. The satellite is reported to have cost in excess of $785 million dollars, and its main mission will be to study the Earth's ozone to try and determine if the ozone hole is shrinking or increasing. Although it will be focused on the stratosphere (the ozone layer), it will also be tracking pollution, climate changes, etc. by scanning and analyzing each of Earth's atmospheric levels all the way down to the troposphere."

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19 min till first post? by Retric · 2004-07-15 07:25 · Score: 3, Insightful

I guess nobody cares how the ozone doing? Or perhaps $785 million is not what it used to be.

Or maybe launching something into space is not a big deal and even if people are willing to debate the results of science even though they don't care about the people / things that carry it out. PS: 19 min till first post?