Thursday, January 22, 2009

Satellite Launched to Help the Environment

Friday 23 January, 2009 (JST)
Japan successfully launched the world's first satellite to be used exclusively to track Greenhouse gases. The aim of GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) is to collect gas emissions data around the world for use by scientists in helping to protect our wonderful world.

For more information view:
http://www.space-travel.com/Launch_Pad.html

1 comment:

  1. That's really cool. Thanks for posting that. I hadn't seen that article in our papers here, though I probably will at some point.

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