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NASA Science Grips Two Brothers
Two principal researchers on several airborne sensors had more in common than conducting atmospheric research. Gerry and Andy Heymsfield are brothers.
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Building 45 Payloads for Balloon Mission
Dartmouth scientists are building 45 payloads--each destined for a trip on a balloon around Antarctica as part of NASA'S BARREL mission.
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"My American Landscape" Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change
NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
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Stunning Lyrid Meteor Over Earth at Night
Video from the International Space Station shows breathtaking images of Earth with Lyrid meteors burning up in the atmosphere.
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Forest Recovering from Mt. St. Helens Explosion
On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens exploded. More than 30 years later, the landscape is still recovering.
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NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.
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DC3: Chemistry of Thunderstorms
NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
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A NASA Weather 'Eye in the Sky' Marks 10 Years
With 2,378 spectral eyes measuring our atmosphere, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder could be called a "monster" of weather and climate research.
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Plants Blooming, Leafing Earlier
Plants are leafing and flowering sooner each year than predicted by controlled experiments designed to predict plant responses to rising temperatures.
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NASA's ER-2 Completes MABEL Validation Deployment
The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.
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Wind Farm's Impact on Surface Temperature
A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over 9 years.
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NASA's Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles
A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this time series animation of 40 years of Landsat images.
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NASA Langley Aircraft Joins Operation IceBridge
A NASA research airplane is about to take wing for Greenland, where it will join an extensive airborne survey of Earth's polar ice.
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Warm Ocean Currents Cause Antarctic Ice Loss
Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, based on data from ICESat.
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On Top of the Smokies, All Covered in Light Rain
The Southern Appalachians are one of the rainiest places in the United States, and scientists have discovered that much of it is difficult to detect light rain.
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NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes
GPS technology will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes across the western U.S.
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One Week of Ash from Mexico's Volcano
NASA has animated imagery from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite to provide a week long look at the Popocatepetl Volcano's activity.
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NASA Celebrates Earth Day 2012 in the Washington Area
NASA took part in the celebration of Earth Day's 42nd anniversary on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from April 20 through April 22, 2012.
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Live Music, NASA Science, American Indian Perspectives
NASA's "Beautiful Earth" educational program combines interactive talks and hands-on workshops for students with live music.
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Students Use Xbox Kinect to Enhance Visualizations of Earth
Students in a NASA training and development program put an Xbox Kinect into their 3-D virtual environment to display satellite data.