The man who presumably started the Space Race was born on September 7 in 1914. He was best known for his Rockoon project, which proved the existence of the radiation belt sorrounding our planet.
POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances The French space agency, CNES, has developed the POLDER instrument, which flew on ADEOS (ADvanced Earth Observation Satellite), developed by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. This was the first French/Japanese cooperative project in the area of Earth observation. A second, identical instrument flew on ADEOS-2, successor to ADEOS, until October 2003.
Go here for animations of the environment. Think deeply about what you see here, the process technologies that let you see this, the standards that are in place that allow you to link to these images, and what these communications media mean for problem s