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Islands of the Mediterranean,
of Homer's Odyssey.
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Now on toward Crete,
site of the ancient Minoan culture.
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The great city of Alexandria...
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...once the world's center
of learning.
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The lush delta of the River Nile...
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...spreading down
to the Mediterranean from Cairo.
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It is thought that thousands of years
ago, everything was fertile...
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...but a change in climate
turned North Africa into a desert.
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What will future climatic changes
do to our Earth and to us?
:14:17
We're still looking for a deploy
over that MlLA pass...
:14:21
Okay. How's that?
:14:23
In search of the answer, Sally Ride
deploys a satellite called ERBS.
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That's a pretty spacecraft.
:14:32
- Challenger, you're go for release.
- We'll put it in work.
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ERBS will help us know if there'll
be more sandstorms in our future...
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...or blizzards
or hurricanes like Josephine...
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...500 miles in diameter...
:14:48
...and packing winds
of 90 miles an hour.
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- We're seeing not even half of it.
- There's the eye of the storm.
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The U.S. East Coast is to the right.