NASA satellite crashes in Sahara Desert.
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A decommissioned NASA satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), re-entered Earth's atmosphere and fell over the Sahara Desert. The satellite, which was launched in 1991 to study the Earth's atmosphere, had been decommissioned in 2005 and had been orbiting the Earth since then. NASA had been monitoring the satellite's descent and had predicted that it would fall over the ocean, but it ended up falling over the Sahara Desert.
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