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Nature 442, xi (20 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/7100xia; Published online 19 July 2006

Making the paper: Tim Wright

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A huge rupture, detected in satellite data, leads to a gruelling camel trek.

The radar carried by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite, which was launched in 2002, was designed to measure and map Europe's atmosphere, ocean and land — not to monitor earthquakes. But earthquake scientists, lacking other options, have appropriated such satellites for their own purposes.

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