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Columbia: good results for Israeli climate experiment

Cape Canaveral, USA – Space shuttle landing is previewed for tomorrow

The space shuttle Columbia mission proceeds smoothly and it is running towards the end. The astronauts have carried out an experiment on the study of tropical fires influence on the Earth climate. Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, with special television cameras, has recorded the amazonian forest images. According to the study the forests fires could influence the climate, because smoke columns hole the...

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Rome, Italy, 01/31/2003 16:19
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