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NASA Plants 'Moon Tree' in Celebration of Earth Day
04.22.09 - NASA, the United States National Arboretum and American Forests teamed up Wednesday to celebrate Earth Day 2009.
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Do You Know Where Your Space Station Is?
04.20.09 - Tired of those boring old tracking maps that show the space station going around and around the Earth, and wondering what the view from up there must be like?
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Online Poll Ranks NASA's Biggest Hits for Planet Earth
04.21.09 - Voters selected precise global navigation made possible by NASA's pioneering research in Earth's rotation and shape as their top choice.
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NASA Green Initiatives
04.08.09 - While NASA undertakes its mission of exploring the planets, the agency also tends to another important mission - protecting Planet Earth.
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CALIPSO Sees Through the Haze
04.22.09 - New research shows that the warming effect of aerosols, or small particles in the air, increases with the amount of cloud cover below the aerosols.
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Experiment May Help Forecast Deadly Cyclones
04.13.09 - NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop.
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Wilkins Ice Bridge Collapse
04.08.09 - A narrow ice bridge connecting the last remnants of the northern part of Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf broke apart in early April 2009.
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Aerosols May Drive Significant Portion of Arctic Warming
04.08.09 - New NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since 1976 may be due to changes in tiny airborne particles.
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Scientists Prepare for Return to Pine Island Glacier
04.06.09 - Polar scientists believe Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier to be thinning because of warm ocean waters below.
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Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice
04.06.09 - The latest Arctic sea ice data show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing.