Posted: 3/4/2011 4:22:14 AM EDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) –– NASA says it looks like the rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite is in the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt....
...Glory was launched on a three-year mission to analyze how airborne particles affect Earth's climate. Besides monitoring particles in the atmosphere, it will also track solar radiation to determine the sun's effect on climate change. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_GLORY_SATELLITE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-03-04-07-48-04 |
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Of course, launching it released thousands of tons of greenhouse gases in the air, complicating the percieved problem even further!  Well the way I see it, it is one less hole in the ozone layer, which I thought was the cause of global warming years ago. Do these folks really think that we are that stupid? |