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It’s handy having a view of Earth from space. This particular view may be one that changes the way we predict weather phenomena.
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It’s handy having a view of Earth from space. This particular view may be one that changes the way we predict weather phenomena.
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journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/97/1/bams-d-14-00054.1.xml
goes-r.gov/spacesegment/glm.html
goes-r.gov/education/docs/Factsheet_GLM.pdf
goes-r.gov
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![From Optics to Spacewalks: Dr. Ellen Ochoa | Great Minds
Dr. Ellen Ochoa is incredible! She published over a dozen papers, co-filed three patents, and was a NASA engineer, all before becoming an astronaut and spending nearly a thousand hours in space.
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