Compared to the cost of losing a satellite or a shuttle to space debris impact, "this looks like a bargain, " says Dr. Campbell, who works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Cooke and his observing team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have already recorded several bright fireballs from the Eta Aquarids and are looking forward to seeing more using the agency's network of all-sky meteor cameras.

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What they found was that during a period of less than two weeks in 1996, Atlanta's heat island caused convective thunderstorms, causing it to rain on the city or to the south and southeast about 50 or 60 miles, says Dale Quattrochi of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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Since joining NASA in 1988 at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, she has conducted research for a variety of solar missions.

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From there, the data go to NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Working at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, his first job at NASA was working on the space shuttle.

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