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[email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 inside Search for life begins COMMUNITY under Antarctic ice P | 12 • Art expo marks launch of RasGas’ CSR programme P | 4-6 HEALTH • Doctor, patient trust beats pain, stress • Dental cleaning P | 7 EYE ON MOVIE • Letterman, Hoffman, Zeppelin honoured by Obama EARTH P | 8-9 HOSPITALITY • How to make the perfect: Oatmeal P | 10 LAW • Do not hand in During the years the a blank cheque! Landsat programme has • The rules for sick leave been active, its big eye has seen changes on P | 11 Earth regarding water, PLUS... food, forest, urban growth • Comics, Word Puzzles, and glaciers and ice. Crosswords, Hyper Sudoku, Kakuro, TV listings and more P | 2-3 P | 13-15 2 PLUS | THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2012 COVER STORY Impact of climate Jack A Kaye, associate director for Research change of Science Mission Directorate of Nasa, has travelled to Doha to on Earth share his expertise. by Isabel Ovalle happening to this planet in relation to temperature and asa, the National precipitation. We are trying Aeronautics to launch a satellite in 2013 and Space to measure soil moisture and NAdministration of we’ll launch another one in the US, puts its experts, tech- 2014 to improve our ability nology and satellites to use for to measure precipitation,” he the evaluation of the impact of added. climate change on Earth. Satellites also measure Among these satellites solar radiation. “If you have is the Landsat programme, data you can begin to make which recently celebrated its connections, look at pollut- 40th anniversary.