Submitted by liem on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 12:14
Launched September 18,1991, landed September 26,1991
Primary payload, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), deployed on the third day of the
mission. During its planned 18-month mission, the 14,500-pound observatory will make the most
extensive study ever conducted of the Earth's troposphere, the upper level of the planet's envelope of life
sustaining gases which also include the protective ozone layer.
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