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NASA Targeting Earth Observing Satellites and ISS Sensors to Aid Missing Malaysian Airline Search
Sensors aboard NASA’s Terra satellite are aiding the search for vanished flight MH 370. Credit: NASA
NASA has actively joined the hunt for the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH-370 that mysteriously disappeared without a trace more than two weeks ago on March 8, 2014.
Sensors aboard at least two of NASA’s unmanned Earth orbiting global observation satellites as well as others flying on the manned International Space Station (ISS) are looking for signs that could aid the investigators from a multitude of nations and provide some small measure of comfort to the grieving families and loved ones of the passengers aboard.
“Obviously NASA isn’t a lead agency in this effort. But we’re trying to support the search, if possible,” Allard Beutel, NASA Headquarters, Office of Communications director, told Universe Today this evening. (…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/110656/nasa-targeting-earth-observing-satellites-and-iss-sensors-to-aid-missing-malaysian-airline-search/
