Many types of environmental data simply cannot be gathered while standing on the earth’s surface. Our ability to understand and monitor Earth’s ecological systems has grown exponentially since Russia launched Sputnik 1 in 1957. These ten spacecraft have been (or, in one case, would have been) instrumental to our current understanding of the Earth’s…
You can trash dumpsters all you like (see what we did there?) but even these much-denigrated, flame spewing and dive-worthy…
