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Volume 155, Number 16 (April 17, 1999)

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Looking Homeward

An instrument-laden satellite will survey Earth as never before

After many delays, NASA plans to launch the Terra satellite this summer to study Earth's climate.

Further Readings:

Mlot, C. 1997. Global temperatures spark hot debate. Science News 151(March 15):156.

Monastersky, R. 1993. The $1.5 billion question. Science News 144(Sept. 4):158.

Sources:

James G. Anderson
Harvard University
Chemistry Department
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Inez Y. Fung
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Geology
301 McCone Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767

Michael D. King
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Berrien Moore III
University of New Hampshire
EOS Administration
Room 306, Morse Hall
30 Silver Street
Dover, NH 03820

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 16, April 17, 1999, p. 248. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.


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