We just lost another critical climate satellite

Grist
By Melissa CroninApr 26, 2016, 8:33 pm253 pts
One of climate change’s most important biographers — a 2,700-pound satellite orbiting 450 miles above the surface of the Earth — just recorded its last data point. Earlier this month, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that, after nine years and five months in orbit, the satellite known as…

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