The first weather satellite to successfully report global weather data from space was launched 53 years ago this week. An institute within the University of Wisconsin?s has surfaced two of the first images sent back, though there?s some debate as to which of the two came first. The pictures show the earth in grainy black-and-white, but it?s easy to make out the cloud covering that NASA and NOAA used as proof that such satellites could be useful in making meteorological predictions.
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