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Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng were in Shenzhou VI Chinese Spacemen: What is the man doing in the picture? He is forecasting the weather. How do they know what the weather will be like? They use the manmade satellites to help them. 2.) Now satellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites takes pictures of the atmosphere(大氣 ), because this is where the weather forms. They send these pictures to the weather station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will change. Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries can receive satellite pictures. When they receive the new pictures, they pare them with the earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the past few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, they can tell people about it. So the weather satellites are of great help to the scientists at the station. In the past they could only forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for 3 or 5 days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to f