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Why did it take so long to notice that the ozone layer had holes in it? Which satellite provided the data?
Wikipedia says:
The discovery of the annual depletion of ozone above the Antarctic was first announced by Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin, in a paper which appeared in Nature on May ...
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What did NASA Vehicle Assembly Building's "weather" look like? Did it really have clouds? Did it rain?
Comments below this answer to Would there be snow, rain, fog or clouds in a deep, sealed, subsurface cavern on the Moon if water were present? point out that the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building ...
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What routinely happened in the TIROS control center? Was anything controlled there?
Question: What actually happened in the TIROS control center at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland? Did they receive and print out satellite images in this room? If so, how? Did they ...
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Where is http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/?
In the question Methods of lightning detection on Mars? I included an image of
A lightning detector at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida:
Source
The Wikimedia's page cites http://thunder....
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How did "the kid" (John Meisenheimer) calculate that there was a wave in the jet stream and Explorer 1 would be okay to launch?
The tough but timely question NASA at sIxty years, will there be a new moonshot mandate? links to the NASA YouTube video NASA 60th: How It All Began which shows a lot of really nice, historical file ...
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What is KSC's HURCON II?
HURCON II sounds like DEFCON 2, the 2nd highest level of five levels of The DEFense readiness CONdition (DEFCON); an alert state used by the United States Armed ...
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What responsibilities does the Hurricane Harvey OPS team have, and what challenges?
Here is a tweet from NASA flight director Royce Renfrew's personal twitter account. I believe at least some of the Hurricane Harvey OPS team is on-site at Johnson Space Center but the work might be ...
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