Like every other machine satellites do not last.
What can satellites do.
Data acquired by satellite borne radars were able to show sea levels have been rising by three mm a year over the last decade.
Artificial satellites can be sent to orbit other planets too.
A satellite is a moon planet or machine that orbits a planet or star.
Further satellites are instead sent even farther away from earth.
Because instead of close up high resolution images our polar orbiting satellites provide much more frequent coverage twice daily over the whole planet in order to understand global weather patterns.
Imaging satellites can measure the changing sizes of glaciers which is difficult to do from the ground due to the remoteness and darkness of the polar regions.
For the closer satellites engineers will use its last bit of fuel to slow it down so it will fall out of orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
Satellites differ greatly in the level of detail they can see.
Two things can happen to old satellites.
The soviet union launched the first artificial satellite sputnik 1 on october 4 1957.
Why can t noaa s satellites see someone s house.
Satellites monitor ocean temperatures and prevailing currents.