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Astronomy cast episode 692 mission rule call part one Earth orbit. Welcome to astronomy

cast weekly fax based journey through the cosmos where you help you understand

not only what we know, but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of

University with me as always is Dr Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the planetary science

institute and the director of Cosmic Quest. Hey Pamela how you doing? I am doing well. We are

recording this episode early because on the day we would normally record it. My gallbladder is

being removed and I have to say I'm not entirely okay about this. But I am glad to be here and I'm

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All right, go to patreon.com slash astronomy cast. It's time for another series. This time we're

going to look at the missions that are currently in place across the solar system. Today we'll start

with the key missions here on earth studying the planet from above and looking out into the universe.

All right, well let's talk about the spacecraft that are looking down. Who is observing our planet?

And this is like just like warm people in advance like this is an overview. There are like it's

going to be hard for this for the earth type stuff for us to really sort of provide a comprehensive

list. But here's some of the stuff that we think is really kind of interesting right now. Yeah,

so at the broadest level there are weather satellites from all the different nations that are

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