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A look at the US cold snap from NASA infrared imagery
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
Imagery and an animation of infrared imagery from the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed the movement of cold, Arctic air over the U.S. from De...
Eye-Popping View of CO2, Critical Step for Carbon-Cycle Science
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to pr...
Cloud formation: How feldspar acts as ice nucleus
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
About 90 percent of precipitation over land depends on the formation of ice crystals in clouds, which fall down due to their increasing weight. But water in clo...
What satellites can tell us about how animals will fare in a changing climate
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
From the Arctic to the Mojave Desert, terrestrial and marine habitats are rapidly changing. These changes impact animals that are adapted to specific ecological...
Critical zone, critical research at the weathering zone
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
The Earth's critical zone isn't called critical for nothing. Known as our planet's outer skin, it is essential for human survival. The critical zone extends fro...
Satellites, airport visibility readings shed light on troops' exposure to air pollution
Dec 09, 2016 (SPX)
Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an approach used to study air pol...
ISRO launches earth observation satellite, Resourcesat-2A
Dec 09, 2016 (IANS)
An Indian rocket named Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off successfully on Wednesday morning with the country's earth observation satellite Resourc...
NASA Announces First Geostationary Vegetation, Atmospheric Carbon Mission
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
NASA has selected a first-of-its-kind Earth science mission that will extend our nation's lead in measuring key greenhouse gases and vegetation health from spac...
Illinois researchers discover hot hydrogen atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
A team of University of Illinois researchers has discovered the existence of hot atomic hydrogen (H) atoms in an upper layer of Earth's atmosphere known as the ...
Bacterial mechanism converts nitrogen to greenhouse gas
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
Cornell University researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that helps convert nitrogen-based fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenh...
Scientists shed light on the climate-changing desert dust fertilizing our oceans
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
The way in which man-made acids in the atmosphere interact with the dust that nourishes our oceans has been quantified by scientists for the first time. In the ...
DigitalGlobe releases first high-resolution image from WorldView-4 satellite
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe has released the first public image from the recently launched WorldView-4 satellite, showcasing a level of clarity and information content that is...
NASA's AIM observes early noctilucent ice clouds over Antarctica
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent, o...
Vega lofts Turkey's Earth observation satellite
Dec 06, 2016 (ESA)
Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket on a commercial mission to deliver a Turkish Earth observation satellite into orbit. Liftoff of Vega's eighth flawless mi...
Ammonia detected in upper troposphere for the first time
Dec 05, 2016 (UPI)
For the first time, trace amounts of ammonia, a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, have been measured in the upper troposphere, the lowest of Earth's a...
Eyes in the sky
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Donald Trump's election is generating much speculation about how his administration may or may not reshape the federal government. On space issues, a senior Tru...
Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable!
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even in the air there is four times as much of it as oxygen. However, ...
Geographers provide new insight into commuter megaregions of the US
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield provide new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the U.S., by using...
Study says salt marshes have limited ability to absorb excess nitrogen
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Add fertilizer to your garden and your plants will probably grow bigger and taller. Add fertilizer to a salt marsh and the plants may not get any bigger at all....
NASA's ISS-RapidScat Earth Science Mission Ends
Nov 30, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's International Space Station Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat) Earth science instrument has ended operations following a successful two-year mission abo...
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