50 Years Ago Today - The Launch of the First Weather Satellite
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 4/1/2010, 8:33 pm
"On April 1, 1960, a satellite designed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) launched to become the nation's first weather satellite. That satellite, the Television InfraRed Observational Satellite, or TIROS 1, operated for only 78 days but demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring Earth's cloud cover and weather patterns from space. This NASA program provided the first accurate weather forecasts based on data gathered from space."
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1627.html






"TIROS I image showing cyclone centered at 17W, 45 S in South Atlantic. Monthly Weather Review, July 1961, p. 235."
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/spac0102.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIROS-1

Things have come a long way.
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50 Years Ago Today - The Launch of the First Weather Satellite - Chris in Tampa, 4/1/2010, 8:33 pm
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