NASA to expand partnership with Brazil in monitoring Amazon
Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics Space Administration, will tour the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Embraer facilities in São Paulo today (Jul. 25). Following this, in-depth discussions will take place between scientists from both countries.On Monday (24), Nelson held a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasília. The main focal point of the discussion was NASA's interest in expanding their partnership with Brazil, with a specific focus on monitoring the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and implementing preservation measures."Our satellites already send a lot of images and information to scientists here in Brazil to locate the destruction of the forest and we will launch, i...