NASA revising Topex/Poseidon sea-level data after finding error

NASA researchers are revising sea-level data generated by a U.S. altimeter aboard the U.S./French Topex/Poseidon spacecraft because of a data processing software error only recently discovered. The U.S. space agency said sea-level measurements generated by the altimeter are too high because software...

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