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Climate Models Project Increase in U.S. Wildfire Risk
Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in coming decades.
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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake
In a remote lake in Antarctica, 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA and other institutions have uncovered a community of bacteria.
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Video Reveals 2012 Hurricane Season Rainfall
This animation shows the TRMM satellite's space-based measurements of the total rainfall of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
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NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission Ends for 2012
NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.
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Physicist Happens Upon Rain Data Breakthrough
Physicists working on a sensor to gauge lunar dust found out it could aid weather forecasting on Earth, too.
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Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds
An international team of experts has combined satellite and aircraft data to produce the most comprehensive assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica.
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NASA Study May Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts
Forecasters could soon be better able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments, finds a new NASA-led study.
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Bopha (Western North Pacific Ocean)
Infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite have watched the strong thunderstorms in Typhoon Bopha fizzle and shrink in area over the weekend ...
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Confirms 2010 Landslides
A comparison of a new global catalog of rain-triggered landslides with rain data from TRMM shows 2010 was a devastating year for landslides.
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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Turns 15
When it rains it pours, goes the saying, and for the last 15 years, tropical rainfall data has poured in, thanks to TRMM.
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GOES-R Satellite Program Undergoes Successful Review
The GOES-R Series Program, to replace and upgrade geostationary satellites tracking severe weather across the United States, received a favorable review of plans to launch beginning in 2015.
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LDCM Exits Vacuum Chamber
On Nov. 23, 2012, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite concluded environmental testing in a thermal vacuum chamber.
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Anatomy of an IceBridge Mission
An 11-hour Operation IceBridge mission over Antarctica is not a casual undertaking and takes months of pre-planning. John Sonntag describes what it's like.
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2012 Antarctic Campaign Retrospective
IceBridge completes their five-week field campaign to Antarctica and reflects upon the mission's successes and highlights.
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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up
In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up.
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Almost Mars
In the Grand Canyon, the interns of NASA Goddard's 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy got to explore Mars without leaving Earth.
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Why the World Didn't End
Dec. 21, 2012, wasn't the end of the world, and here's why.
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NASA Study Examines Antarctic Sea Ice Increases
While Arctic sea ice cover is declining dramatically under the effects of climate change, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased in recent years. A new study examines why.
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Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections
A new NASA-funded study finds future warming of Earth's climate is likely to be on the high side of current projections.
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NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP Satellite Returns First Year of Data
Just one year ago, on Oct. 28, 2011, the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully blasted into orbit. Now it has completed its first year of returning Earth science data.