NASA's Aqua Satellite Launched

the real manta writes "The latest in NASA's Earth science satellite missions, AQUA, was launched yesterday from vandenberg air-force base in California. Aqua carries the AIRS instrument which will be an incredible source of data for weather forecasting and studies of the atmosphere. There's an article here on space.com."

Apple reaction?

[jsimon12]

Any word yet on Apple filing a trademark infringement lawsuit with NASA over this [uspto.gov]?

alternative thought

[Bouillabaisse]

I wonder if they are going to use it to study wheather or "wheather"? You know what i mean by "wheather." You know, the swamp gases that reflect off of Venus. hehehe ;)

Aqua animations

[dolsen]

you can find a number of really cool (and large!) animations of the Aqua launch and deployment on the Aqua visualizations page [nasa.gov]. continuing coverage can also be found on Earth Observatory [nasa.gov]