Selfies from Space: How Satellites Help Science on Earth

By Tamra B. Orr

Satellites may exist out in space, but they let us study Earth from the outside looking in. From climate change to natural disasters and more, find out how scientists are using satellites to tackle some of our world's most challenging problems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781496665355

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Future Space: Selfies from Space by Tamra B. Orr

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Chapter One: Keeping Tabs: Eyes in Space

Chapter Two: Satellites to the Rescue

Chapter Three: Communication Today and Tomorrow

Chapter Four: Spies in the Skies

Chapter Five: Keeping Satellites Working

Glossary

Read More

Internet Sites

Index

Copyright

Back Cover

CHAPTER ONE

KEEPING TABS: EYES IN SPACE

If you were asked to define the word satellite, you might describe a man-made, metal machine moving through space. You would be right. However, those are artificial satellites. A satellite is a moon, planet, or machine that orbits a planet or star. This means that Earth itself is a satellite because it orbits the Sun. The moon is also a satellite because it orbits Earth.

The first man-made satellites were built in the late 1950s. People sent them into space to learn important information about Earth. More than 60 years later, satellites are still being launched