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The primary mission of the MEIDEX payload was to study the temporal and spatial distribution and physical properties of atmospheric desert dust over North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Saharan regions. The aim was achieved by a remote sensing experiment operated by the astronauts aboard the shuttle. Also, MEIDEX accomplished diverse secondary science objectives by performing slant visibility observations, sea-surface reflectivity observations, desert surface observations and observations of Transient Luminous Events, better known as sprites.

IAMI = Israel Aerospace Medicine Institute

ITA= International Technology Alliance

CIBEX -2 Center for Information Biology Gene Expression Database (CIBEX) 2.

MSL-III  MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY

Personal patch for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon

Very similar in design to the Astronaut Class of 1978 emblem.

The Israeli Space Agency Investigation About Hornets (ISAIAH)
experiment will be carried on Endeavour's middeck to research the effect of
weightlessness on combs built by oriental hornets.

Payload on STS-47