https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/happens-nasa-loses-eyes-earth-122602124.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Sometime in the next few years \u2014 no one knows exactly when \u2014 three NASA satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark.
\nAlready they are drifting, losing height bit by bit. They have been gazing down at the planet for over two decades, far longer than anyone expected, helping us forecast the weather, manage wildfires, monitor oil spills and more. But age is catching up to them, and soon they will send their last transmissions and begin their slow, final fall to Earth.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a moment scientists are dreading.<\/p>\n
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When the three orbiters \u2014 Terra, Aqua and Aura \u2014 are powered down, much of the data they\u2019ve been collecting will end with them, and newer satellites won\u2019t pick up all of the slack. Researchers will either have to rely on alternate sources that might not meet their exact needs or seek workarounds to allow their records to continue.<\/p>\n
With some of the data these satellites gather, the situation is even worse: No other instruments will keep collecting it. In a few short years, the fine features they reveal about our world will become much fuzzier.<\/p>\n
\u201cLosing this irreplaceable data is simply tragic,\u201d said Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u201cJust when the planet most needs for us to focus on understanding how we are affected by it, and how we are affecting it, we seem to be disastrously asleep at the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The main area we\u2019re losing eyes on is the stratosphere, the all-important home of the ozone layer.”<\/p>\n
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