Tag Archives: satellite

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  Phoning home: satellite cell phone project a success

  Rocket launched from Virginia’s Wallops Island in April carried smartphones into orbit to send data back to Earth and take pictures.
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  Hurricane Sandy: From birth to landfall

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tracked Hurricane Sandy from birth to landfall.
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  NASA: Record July heat causes record Greenland surface melting

  Satellites see unprecedented modern-day Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt
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  NASA’s Landsat sees Earth’s changes over program’s 40 years of observation

  Former astronaut Piers Sellers talks with Meteorologist Carrie Rose Friday morning.
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  NASA satellite sees when the lights go out in the city

  Compare the night city lights from Richmond to D.C. before and after Friday’s derecho.