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-(15 years later) edge of Andes...looking at edge of smoke cloud (western edge, stops at Andes)

- entire Amazon basin obscured by smoke from clearing and burning of tropical forest during the dry season. covered area 3x Texas (1000km to mountains). smoke at the center: size of fires in Yellowstone-1998

2 others:

-line of TRW (lightning around the world) (aerosolo)

[[strikethrough]] - [[/strikethrough]] Aurora Borealis

Brings us to discussion of NASA's future program of scientific observation: mission to planet earth. Program through 90's to take advantage of our space program to undertake a comprohensive [[comprehensive]] study of our own planet.j

[earth probes, like TOMS, TRMM, ERBS]

ERBs - solar radiation incident on the Earth, and that re-readiated [[re-radiated]] by the earth. (recently: information on the role of clouds in total heat balance [overall cooling])

[polar platforms - simultaneous measurements: atmosphere, ground, vegetation cover, cloud cover, ocean chlorophyll, etc.]

Sir-B (L-band; faults, forests; precurser [[precursor]] to EOS)

((((message:

As we've developed the capabilities to explore other worlds, we have also acquired the ability to explore our own world in a way that was impossible only a few decades ago.

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