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Giant kangaroo saves the world

by Gene on Jun. 06th, 2008

Australian scientists studying albedo--the amount of sunlight reflected off the Earth—have created a flat cardboard kangaroo 105 feet tall. Photographing the image from space will give clues to how the Earth’s atmosphere heats up and cools down.

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bert123 says:

that is pretty interesting so for the united states are they going to make a cheeseburger or some other fast food item and take a picture of it? what kind of camera do they use to take that photo?
IBI Call it what you want IBI

posted on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:55am

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