Browse Archive
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Cyclone Rusty's Rains Stirred Up Sediment
Cyclone Rusty's heavy rains created sediment filled rivers and tributaries that flowed northwest into the Southern Indian Ocean.
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What Lies Beneath - NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Subglacial
A mini-submarine designed and funded by NASA played a key role in a recent international expedition to explore a remote subglacial lake beneath the frozen Antarctic ice sheet.
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NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings
The GOES-R satellite currently being built has new technology that may help provide earlier warnings for severe weather.
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NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts
Aquarius, NASA’s first satellite instrument specifically built to study the salt content of ocean surface waters, has shown some remarkable variations in its first year of data.
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Launching 101: First Weather Balloons, Then Rockets
Science writer Laura Betz shares her experiences assisting with weather balloons used to prepare for the recent launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
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Air Quality Research Campaign Concludes in California
The DISCOVER-AQ team completed their second destination in a five-year mission to study the air we breathe.
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NASA Eyes Declining Vegetation in Eastern U.S.
NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas.
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NASA/GLOBE Hand Down Pollution Studies to Calif. Students
Teachers are parlaying interest in the DISCOVER-AQ campaign into science lessons for students.
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Glory Launch Failure Summary Released
NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency's Glory spacecraft.
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Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts
A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission -- the perfect platform for this pint-size, solid-state telescope.
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NASA Scientists Part of Arctic Sea Ice Study
NASA data and scientists contributed to a new study out of the United Kingdom that shows Arctic sea ice volume declining in recent years.
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NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
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Landsat 5 Sets Guinness Record
Landsat 5 sets the new Guinness World Records title for Longest-Operating Earth Observation Satellite.
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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Awaits Liftoff
When the newest Landsat spacecraft trains its state-of-the-art sensors on Earth's surface, it will provide images of our ever-changing planet in unparalleled clarity.
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Pacific Locked in 'La Nada' Limbo
Sea-surface height data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show the equatorial Pacific is still locked in a 'La Nada' state.
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VISIONS: A Successful Launch
The principal investigator for VISIONS (VISualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral atom imaging during a Substorm), Goddard's Doug Rowland provided images and updates of the team preparations and the launch.
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Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts
Just 96 days since launch, the Van Allen Probes have already provided new insights into the structure and behavior of the radiation belts that surround Earth.
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GPM Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
The GPM Core Observatory completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Jan. 16, 2013. After twelve days to carefully remove the testing equipment, stow the High Gain Antenna and GPM Microwave Imager, and lift the spacecraft out of the thermal vacuum test chamber, the spacecraft was moved back to the clean room on Jan. 28.
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Severe Weather Over Eastern U.S.
A powerful cold front moving from the central United States to the East Coast is wiping out spring-like temperatures.
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Space Station to Scan The Globe For Weather Data
ISS-RapidScat will launch to the space station in 2014 aboard a SpaceX Dragon resupply mission.