Weather is always a major talking point between people, it can be hot, cold, wet or dry.
We are also used to getting fantastic images beamed done from weather satellites orbiting the Earth showing just what the weather is going to be including incredible pictures of hurricanes from space.
Did you know that all these modern satellites can trace their time lines back to TIROS 1 the first weather satellite which was launched on April 1st 1960. TIROS stands for Television Infrared Observation Satellites
TIROS 1 was an experimental weather satellite built by NASA and would operate until June 1960 when an electoral fault occurred and the probe failed.
Although the pictures
it sent back are poor by the standards of today it showed what could be done to
help people predict the weather today.
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