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Help from Above: NASA Aids Kilauea Disaster Response
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
With an array of sophisticated Earth-observing sensors in orbit and partnerships with space agencies around the globe, NASA had a lot of assets to offer. "One o...
First light for the storm hunter
May 24, 2018 (ESA)
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, also known as the Space Storm Hunter, is completing its initial tests a month after it was installed outside Europe's...
Improperly recycled refrigerators not enough to explain rising CFC levels
May 24, 2018 (UPI)
Earlier this month, Montzka and his colleagues identified rising levels of CFC-11, a common chlorofluorocarbon, in air samples collected in Hawaii. Emissions ha...
The open air as an underappreciated habitat
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
Christian Voigt and colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin have collated the current scientific knowledge on potent...
NOAA reports rising concentration of ozone-eating CFCs
May 22, 2018 (UPI)
The production of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, was fazed out by the Montreal Protocol after researchers showed the chemicals, widely used as aerosols and refri...
Prized data, free and open to all
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
"But if our knowledge of the chemistry of soils should progress as rapidly as it has during the last twenty years, the analysis of a soil will ere long become m...
UAE Space Agency conducts MeznSat preliminary design review
May 21, 2018 (UAE)
The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was held during a meeting at Masdar Institute, and Chaired by Khaled Al Hashmi, Director of Space Mission Management at the ...
NOAA finds rising emissions of ozone-destroying chemical banned by Montreal Protocol
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
Trichlorofluoromethane, or CFC-11, is the second-most abundant ozone-depleting gas in the atmosphere and a member of the family of chemicals most responsible fo...
Satellite study finds major shifts in global freshwater
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
The NASA-led research team, which included Hiroko Beaudoing, a faculty specialist at the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center ...
How far to go for satellite cloud image forecasting into operation
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
A research paper authored by Shi Xiaokang, Li Yaodong, Liu Jianwen, Xiang Xizi, and Liu Le, who are from Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute, presents the...
Scientists uncover likely cheating on ozone treaty
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
Measurements at remote sites -- including the government-run Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii -- of the chemical, known as CFC-11, point to East Asia as the sour...
A Pale Blue Dot, As Seen by a CubeSat
May 16, 2018 (JPL)
NASA set a new distance record for CubeSats on May 8 when a pair of CubeSats called Mars Cube One (MarCO) reached 621,371 miles (1 million kilometers) from Eart...
Isotopic evidence for more fossil fuel sources of aerosol ammonium in city air
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
The sources of ambient ammonia concentrations can be quantified based on the stable isotopic composition of ammonia for various endmembers. However, isotopic so...
Fleet of spacecraft spot long-sought-after process in the Earth's magnetic field
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
The phenomenon, discovered by NASA's four-spacecraft Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, is small but provides crucial insight into turbulent plasmas. The ...
Reconnection tames the turbulent magnetic fields around Earth
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
One of NASA's space weather missions, called Magnetospheric Multiscale or MMS, has discovered one surprising way this turbulent energy is dissipated: The magnet...
NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in the space - filled with charged particles known as plasma - around Earth. This fundamental proce...
China launches new Earth observation satellite for environmental monitoring
May 10, 2018 (XNA)
The Gaofen-5 satellite was launched off the back of a Long March 4C rocket at 2:28 a.m. Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi...
New research reveals how energy dissipates outside Earth's magnetic field
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
Just outside of Earth's magnetic field, the solar wind's onslaught of electrons and ionized gases creates a turbulent maelstrom of magnetic energy known as the ...
Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images
May 10, 2018 (ESA)
The very first image, captured on 7 May at 10:33 GMT (12:33 CEST), shows the transition between day and night over the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The satellite ...
CryoSat reveals retreat of Patagonian glaciers
May 03, 2018 (ESA)
Glaciers all over the globe are retreating - and for the last 15 years, glacial ice has been the main cause of sea-level rise. Apart from Antarctica, Patagonia ...
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