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NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission surpasses expectations flying to new heights in 2017
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
MMS was initially launched into an orbit that passed it through a region of the magnetosphere - the magnetic bubble surrounding Earth - on the side of the plane...
NASA Calculated Heavy Rainfall Leading to California Mudslides
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a landslide potential map was generated by the global Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational ...
GeoCarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas
Jan 15, 2018 (JPL)
The Geostationary Carbon Observatory (GeoCarb), targeted for launch in the early 2020s, will build on the success of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2...
Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Texas A and M University and the University of Arizona published their latest study in Advances of Atmospheric Sciences. It's selected as the c...
Australia swelters through one of hottest years on record
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Seven of the vast continent's 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005, with only 2011 cooler than average, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said in its annual ...
Soil freeze-thaw stimulates nitrous oxide emissions from alpine meadows
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
In a recently published study in Agricultural Ecosystem and Environment, scientists from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences continuou...
China launches remote sensing satellites SuperView-1
Jan 10, 2018 (XNA)
The satellites, SuperView-1 03/04, blasted off at 11:24 a.m. Beijing time on the back of a Long March 2D rocket, according to the center. The mission aims to pr...
We need one global network of 1000 stations to build an Earth observatory
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately. Th...
ICON and GOLD teaming up to explore Earth's interface to space
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Above the ozone layer, the ionosphere is a part of Earth's atmosphere where particles have been cooked into a sea of electrically-charged electrons and ions by ...
Central America feels chill of N. America's cold snap
Jan 05, 2018 (AFP)
Unusually low temperatures were being recorded in the region -- though nowhere near as low as in North America. Costa Rica's capital San Jose saw the mercury pl...
NASA sees first direct proof of ozone hole recovery
Jan 05, 2018 (JPL)
Measurements show that the decline in chlorine, resulting from an international ban on chlorine-containing human-produce chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (C...
NASA-led Study Solves a Methane Puzzle
Jan 04, 2018 (JPL)
Methane emissions have been rising sharply since 2006. Different research teams have produced viable estimates for two known sources of the increase: emissions ...
NASA map reveals a continent of two extremes - temperature extremes
Jan 04, 2018 (UPI)
The new composite map was plotted using MODIS land surface temperature data collected between Dec. 26 and Jan. 2. The map shows frigid temperatures across the e...
Arctic clouds highly sensitive to air pollution
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
Nordenskiold's record of the haze was among the first evidence that air pollution around the northern hemisphere can travel toward the pole and degrade air qual...
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission locates elusive electron act
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
Since these acts can't be seen by the naked eye, NASA uses specially designed instruments to capture the show. The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, is...
Earth passes perigee, its closest point to the sun
Jan 03, 2018 (UPI)
During perihelion, Earth is 91.6 million miles from the sun. At the most distant portion of its orbit, the aphelion, Earth is 94.5 million miles from the sun. T...
Resourcesat-2A Completes One Year in Space
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Resourcesat series of satellites, with a unique 3 tier imaging capability, have created its own 'niche' in catering to multitude of applications, specifically i...
DLR and Japan sign collaboration agreement on climate research
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
"Through this agreement, we will be actively involved in implementing the aims established at the Paris Climate Change Conference COP-21 of 2015, and also contr...
Scientists discover unexpected side effect to cleaning up urban air
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
For decades, efforts to reduce air pollution have led to cleaner air in U.S cities like Los Angeles, with subsequent improvements in public health. Those effort...
Prototype space sensors take test ride on NASA ER-2
Dec 26, 2017 (JPL)
The flight campaign, called Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL), sought to test capabilities of several proposed instruments for the Ae...
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