The Blob

Verner Suomi NPP - NPOESS - Blue Marble Earth 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi

http://library.ssec.wisc.edu/SuomiWebsite/index.html

Hugh Mann, being a sensitive and compassionate post Sputnik guy living and studying in the sixties and seventies in a progressive metropolitan city state containing a world class research university, remembers Verner E. Suomi quite well, and fondly recalls the early days in the tall Engineering Research Building on the University of Wisconsin engineering campus in sunny frigid downtown Madison, Wisconsin in the United States of America!

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