Report Calls for Renewed National Commitment to Space-Based Earth Observations
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January 16 -- About half of the scientific instruments on the country's environmental satellites are expected to stop working by 2010, which will lead to a loss of data used to study climate change, predict natural disasters, and monitor land use. NASA and NOAA should secure long-term funding to maintain existing and previously planned satellite missions and to undertake a set of 17 new missions between 2010 and 2020, says a new National Research Council report.
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