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Spinoff story
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A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
In the 1980s, a NASA scientist and future founder of GeoOptics proposed repurposing a technique NASA had pioneered for learning about other planets’ atmospheres to sound Earth’s atmosphere. Now the Pasadena, California company offers atmospheric data to improve weather forecasts.