Apr 5 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA reported that the new joint U.S.-French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite had observed giant waves measuring up to 40 feet high in the North Atlantic on March 14. The satellite's mission was "to study the dynamics of the currents of the world's oceans by measuring the sea level using a radar altimeter." (W Post, Apr 5/93)
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