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A nauseating AP/CNN lie below.

Failed to explain why they are only focusing on the Mediterranean.
(Hint: That's where Israel's potential enemies are.)

Not a single detail about the other 180 experiments.
Only the Israeli matters.

If they were serious about this they
would be looking at all the world's deserts.
(I hear the Gobi sand blows all the way to Canada.)

What are the "details of the clouds that
scientists say warrant further study?"

Why use an Israeli colonel instead of
a scientist w/ expertise in this field.?

It's all pointless anyway. Bush is an oilman
who will not do anything w/ their findings.

Astronauts eye dust plumes from above

Data will aid Israeli study of climate change

Saturday, January 18, 2003 Posted: 8:28 PM EST (0128 GMT)

Astronauts aboard space shuttle Columbia talk Saturday during televised interviews from the flight deck.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts aimed a pair of Israeli cameras at the Mediterranean and Atlantic on Saturday in search of airborne plumes of dust that might be affecting the weather.

The $2 million experiment is sponsored by the Israel Space Agency and Tel Aviv University. Their point man aboard the shuttle is Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, an engineering graduate of the university.

Researchers want to better understand how dust affects climate and are using the 16-day mission to gather evidence. The dust can be far-flung, with plumes originating in the Sahara Desert sometimes drifting across the Atlantic all the way to Florida.

So far, thick clouds have obscured the views, but the cameras are capturing details of the clouds that scientists say warrant further study.

As the cameras scan the Mediterranean, researchers stationed in Greece are taking dust measurements from an airplane for comparison.

Columbia's seven astronauts are conducting a slew of other experiments 180 miles above the Earth.

Among other things, the shuttle is carrying bugs, rats, crystals, moss and even sand, for a study of soil shift.

It is the first shuttle mission in three years that does not involve a trip to the international space station or Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA Does Sand Dunes
2/1/03

Mid East | Conservation