Tag: Al Gore
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See Earth every day from a million miles away, thanks to NASA’s EPIC website
Typhoons roll across the Pacific in an image captured Oct. 17 by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR. (Credit: NASA) Today NASA paid off on its promise to launch a website featuring daily images from the Deep Space Climate Observatory – and it’s spectacular. The refrigerator-sized spacecraft – which has been known as DSCOVR, Triana and…
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17 years later, Gore makes case for viewing Earth from deep space
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, and former Vice President Al Gore speak to reporters at the Kennedy Space Center before Sunday’s launch attempt for the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After waiting nearly two decades for dream to become reality, former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday the mission he fostered in 1998 —…
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