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NASA Launches Mission To Track Polar Ice By Plane

SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-10-31
TOPICS: Climate Change • Polar Ice Cap • Poles • Nasa • Satellite • Polar • Nimbus Program • Environment • Technology_internet

[150 diggs @ General Sciences] Climate scientists are about to lose a satellite that helped show how global warming affects the Earth's polar ice caps. A replacement won't be in orbit until at least 2015, so NASA will use a DC-8 aircraft instead to track whether the process of ... read more »

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