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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 321
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
An analysis is carried out which considers the relationship of orbit mechanics to the satellite navigation problem, in particular, meteorological satellites.
4) Satellites
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Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe the uses of artificial satellites and how they are launched and tracked in orbit.
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 185
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
Qunatative [sic] radiance measurements from NASA's ATS-3 geosynchronous satellite have been used to develop and test a statistical forecast method to predict air terminal weather over the very short range (0-6 hours) time period.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 335
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Introduces a climate index based on radiative transfer theory and derived from the spectral radiances typically used to retrieve temperature profiles.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 227
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
Visible and infrared image data from the scanning radiometer on the NOAA-2 and NOAA-3 satellites are received by a VHF "APT" Station at Colorado State University. In addition to producing the regular hard-copy photographs, the taped signal is specially processed by electronic means, converted from analog to digital form and further processed in the computer. Details of the processing steps and equipment will be described and the meteorological application...
19) Moons
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This book tells of 68 known moons in the solar system, describes Earth's moon, and discusses how space probes provide information about other planets' moons.
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