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    Watching Earth from above

    25 June 2007

    Understanding our Earth starts with a dive into the unknown. Harry Wexler was the first scientist to fly into a hurricane, contributing to today's weather satellite systems, while Paul Crutzen left civil engineering to build computer models of the atmosphere, finding out what satellites really needed to study.

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