Many people are unaware of just how much space exploration affects them everyday. When people plan their day, or holiday, and want to know whether it's going to be sunny or rainy, they check the weather forecast for that day. Thanks to weather satellites that take photos of Earth and send them back by radio, meteorologists can accurately predict the weather for up to 10 days. When those same people are at home watching their soaps, they don't realize that they wouldn't be able to watch TV or use a phone to ring up their mates if it wasn't for geo-stationary communication satellites, which travel around the Earth at the same speed as the planet, so they're always above a certain part of a country, to send phone messages and TV pictures. Satellites also help us preserve the environment in a lot ways, especially land survey satellites that take detailed photos which can be used to detect, and in result stop forest fires, bad crops and oil leaks. …
