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MABEL

Dan Reed, a NASA contractor with Sigma Space Corporation, retrieves data drives from MABEL following the instrument's maiden voyage. MABEL returns a huge amount of surface elevation data, allowing scientists can resolve elevation differences to about 2 centimeters.

 

Credit: Ryan Cargo, Sigma Space Corporation

 

To read a feature story on MABEL, go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mabel

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.

 

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Uploaded on January 24, 2011