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NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise
99% of all of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003 to 2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed just as much to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
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Cubesat Berth Awarded to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
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Mahasen (Northern Indian Ocean)
NASA’s TRMM satellite identified areas of heavy rainfall as Cyclone Mahasen made landfall today, May 16, in southern Bangladesh.
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Entrepreneur Giving Shuttle Truss New Uses
Former shuttle engineer designing solar arrays, mobile cellphone towers using shuttle processing truss.
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New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
Google has compiled more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space into an interactive time-lapse experience.
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Satellite Captures Night-time image of California’s Springs Fire
From its orbit around the Earth, the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite or Suomi NPP satellite, captured a night-time image of California’s Springs Fire.
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Satellite Animation Shows Smoke from California Fire
A video of smoke from California’s Springs Fire was created by animating satellite imagery from NOAA’s GOES-15 satellite.
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NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall
A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought.
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NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold.
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Rover Prototype Set To Explore Greenland
NASA will test a new robotic explorer, dubbed GROVER, in Greenland from early May to early June 2013.
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A Dynamic Landscape, a Dynamic Sensor →
The varied colors and topography of national forests in the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains provide a great test for LDCM's eyesight.
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Ground Measurement Campaign to Help Predict Floods
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission begins collecting ground data in northeastern Iowa that will evaluate how well satellite rainfall data can be used for flood forecasting.
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IceBridge Finishing Up Successful Arctic Campaign
IceBridge scientists begin another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland on Wednesday.
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New Satellite Takes Salton Sea's Temperature
An image from NASA's LDCM satellite may look like a simple black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature.
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HyspIRI: Seeing the Forest, the Trees and More!
Light is more than meets the eye -- the human eye, that is. This spring's HyspIRI airborne campaign took a look at light that we can't see to study Earth's chemistry.
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For NASA to Build TIRS on Schedule, Every Day Counted
From the very beginning it was a looming ticking countdown clock to get the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument ready for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission launch.
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Eye Exam for LDCM →
Once a satellite is in orbit, it's not ready to take measurements until a series of check-out procedures have been performed.
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Celebrating CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary
On April 16, 2008, a suite of NASA instruments was launched to study a unique region of space: the electrically charged portion of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, a region crucial for radio communications.
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GPM Takes Rain Measurements Global
GPM will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space by joining forces with countries around the world.
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Video 'For Good Measure' Shows Global Reach of GPM
The short video, 'For Good Measure' explains why scientists turn to satellites to get a worldwide view of rainfall.