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How can satellites prevent mining disasters?
How can satellites prevent mining disasters?
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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Nov 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Satellites have been orbiting our planet for the past few decades. We might be familiar with how they can be used to track weather, or beam television and phone signals around the world. But did you know, that by capturing images of the Earth outside the visible spectrum, they're able to offer a unique perspective of the ground beneath our feet? They could even - as Earth observations specialist Maral Bayaraa tells us - provide a remote early warning system for an environmental catastrophe, dam collapse.
Released:
Nov 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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