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The article profiles Sigrid Close, an expert in ionospheric and near-Earth phenomena at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Her work regularly sends her to places like India, China, Puerto Rico, and the Marshall Islands. She uses the most advance space surveillance telescopes and radar in her job to study the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere. Close works with a team of rocket scientists and engineers. Close's main responsibility is to monitor satellites for the U.S. Army's Air and Missile Defense Command. She went to the University of Texas at Austin and finished her master's. |