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NASA Airborne Science: Studying our Environment
News media and social media followers learn about NASA's airborne Earth and environmental science program, briefed on current and upcoming missions.
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Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study.
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PODEX Experiment to Reshape Future of Atmospheric Science
David Starr, project scientist of the PODEX experiment, discusses a new class of instruments that could reshape the next generation of atmospheric science.
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NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height
Today, NASA will deploy the first experimental flight of a multi-year airborne science campaign.
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NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate
A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.
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NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
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Joint Polar Satellite System Spacecraft Completes Delta Critical Design Review
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft recently cleared its final major design review, demonstrating that spacecraft development is on track to provide critical environmental data when launched no later than the first quarter of calendar year 2017.
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Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest
A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Landsat satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the ability to tease out the small events that can cause big changes.
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NASA Preps for Launch of Next Earth-Observing Satellite
NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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NASA Working to Improve Air Quality Knowledge
Residents in Calif.'s San Joaquin Valley will see some unusual air traffic over their region in January and February of 2013 -- two NASA aircraft measuring air pollution.
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Infrared View of Midwest Snowstorm
NASA and NOAA satellites have provided data on the powerful storm that dropped more than a foot of snow in some Midwestern states.
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IceBridge Data Brings New Twist to Sea Ice Forecasting
Sea ice thickness data gathered in April 2012 by NASA's Operation IceBridge has been used in seasonal sea ice forecasts for the first time.
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NASA Satellite Finds an Unusually Tall Storm-cell in Cyclone Evan
The TRMM satellite found an unusually tall towering thunderstorm in Cyclone Evan.
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TDRS-K Arrives at Kennedy for Launch Processing
An Air Force transport plane delivered the TDRS-K communications satellite to Kennedy so it can be processed for launch in January.
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A Need to Look Again: TRMM Satellite Observations of Tropical Cyclone Evan
The radar on NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite had observed Tropical Cyclone Evan four times as of Sunday, Dec. 16, and two of those overflights merit a closer examination.
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New NASA-Funded Forecast System Helps Transoceanic Flights Avoid Storms
A new NASA-funded prototype system developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) of Boulder, Colo., now is providing weather forecasts that can help flights avoid major storms as they travel over remote ocean regions.
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Wildfires Light Up Western Australia
Why does the western portion of Australia look so lit up in the new "Black Marble" imagery?
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The Black Marble: Earth at Night
This new look at our planet at night shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across Earth in greater detail than ever before.
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Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
Before a lack of rain and record-breaking heat signaled a problem in July 2012, scientists observed another indication of drought in data from NASA and NOAA satellites: plant stress.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Provides 3-D Analyzation of Super-typhoon Bopha: "Full Catastrophe"
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the eyewall of Super-typhoon Bopha in 3-D shortly before noon on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 (Philippines local time).