Satellites play an increasingly important role in our everyday life. Coping with today's data flows would be impossible without the helpers in orbit, they ensure that people are provided with more and more information. Thanks to sensor and camera technology, radar beams and optical measuring methods, satellites now convey an allencompassing picture of the earth. Around 200 years after Alexander von Humboldt's voyages of discovery, radar satellites and drones took over the job of researchers and discoverers.

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