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Supervolcanoes: Not a Threat For 2012
Throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year lifetime massive supervolcanoes have erupted. However, despite the claims of those who fear 2012,there’s no evidence that such a supereruption is imminent.
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FASTSAT Paints Detailed View of Region Near Earth
FASTSAT has painted a detailed picture of the dynamic region around Earth, showing a host of interrelated phenomena -- such as electric currents and outflowing particles occurring together.
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Ocean Temperatures Can Predict Amazon Fire Season Severity
Researchers created a model to predict the severity and geographic distribution of fires in the Amazon rain forest and the rest of South America months in advance.
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NPP Satellite Acquires First Moisture Measurements
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on board NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first low-atmosphere moisture measurements on November 8, 2011.
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International Team to Drill Beneath Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf
A multidisciplinary, international team of researchers is heading this month to an isolated edge of Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier, to determine how the ocean is melting away the glacier’s underbelly.
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Why Ozone Monitoring Still Matters →
It's not just the CFCs of the 1970s and '80s that can deplete the ozone layer; climate-changing greenhouse gases can also affect it.
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Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study
Multi-year NASA airborne campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of the tropical tropopause over the Pacific Ocean in 2013-2014.
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NASA Airborne Mission Maps Remote, Deteriorating Glaciers
As the only large-scale, ongoing survey of the elevation of Antarctica's ice sheet, IceBridge is beginning to return its own record of the continent's changing ice cover.
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Stalled Weather Systems More Frequent in Decades of Warmer Atlantic
Winter weather doldrums are more frequent in the decades that the North Atlantic is abnormally warm, a new NASA study finds. These stagnant weather episodes, called atmospheric blocking events, can influence ocean circulation.
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Where on Earth...? →
Embark upon a geographical adventure with MISR's Mystery Image Quizzes, designed to inspire understanding of the processes that affect Earth.
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Which Way Does the Wind Blow? Let's Find Out!
On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month watching ocean winds.
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Watching the Birth of an Iceberg
NASA's Operation IceBridge makes the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving in progress at Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
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Halloween Weekend Snow Paints a Ghostly Picture in the U.S. Northeast
A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday
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Suomi NPP
The mission of Suomi NPP is to foster the understanding, monitoring and prediction of long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions
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A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf →
NASA's IceBridge team has seen a large -- and unexpected -- crack running across Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica.
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Delta II Poised to Launch NPP
A technological trailblazer is poised to lift off from a California launch pad to take a place in space to show us what is happening on Earth.
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Scientist Receives First Climate Communications Award
Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, received the Climate Communications Prize from AGU.
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Significant Antarctic Ozone Hole Remains
This year's Antarctic ozone hole, which yawns wide every Southern Hemisphere spring, was the ninth largest on record.
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Ozone Depletion a Bigger Deal Down Under
The Earth's thinning ozone layer is synonymous with a singing and dancing seagull named Sid -- at least it is in New Zealand and Australia.
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Global Precipitation Satellite Takes a Ride
In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the GPM mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape.