http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. This fast-moving feature is all the more surprising since its centre of rotation is typically offset from the geographical pole. The results of this study are published online in Science Express today. http://phys.org/news221410902.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:02:07 EST news221410902 It's not unusual for NASA satellites to attend the birth of tropical cyclones, and NASA's Aqua satellite was there when Tropical Cyclone Bune was born early today in the South Pacific Ocean. http://phys.org/news220204787.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:20:04 EST news220204787 Three days of NASA infrared satellite imagery provides a clear picture to forecasters of the effect wind shear has had on former Cyclone Cherono. Wind shear increased near Cyclone Cherono this weekend and weakened it down to a remnant low pressure area in the Southern Indian Ocean. Today, March 21, Cherono's remnants are moving away from Mauritius and still causing ocean swells. http://phys.org/news219944538.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:42:33 EST news219944538 Tropical Cyclone Atu had a brief but memorable life last week, and NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a day-by-day look at its growth and death. http://phys.org/news218217572.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:00:23 EST news218217572 Infrared satellite data from NASA's Aqua satellite reveal that Tropical Storm Dianne is getting organized off the coast of Western Australia today. http://phys.org/news217188004.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:00:13 EST news217188004 Several NASA satellites have been monitoring the growth of powerful and massive Cyclone Yasi and providing data on clouds, rainfall and intensity to forecasters as it nears Queensland, Australia. NASA data shows where the heaviest rainfall is occurring, frigid temperatures at the top of its thunderstorms and the size of Yasi's eye. http://phys.org/news215797938.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:20:01 EST news215797938 NASA's Aqua Satellite captured a visible image of the former Tropical Storm Anthony, now weakened to a tropical depression, but forecasters aren't counting Anthony out yet. Despite its weakened condition Anthony continues to move west toward Queensland, Australia and into a more favorable area for sustaining a tropical cyclone. http://phys.org/news215270544.html Space & Earth Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:22:34 EST news215270544 Wilma caught the eye of NASA. NASA's Aqua satellite captured visible and infrared images of Cyclone Wilma in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean and her eye was clearly visible from space. http://phys.org/news215196601.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:10:01 EST news215196601 NASA's Aqua satellite captured a series of images from its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument over the last two days and saw the low pressure area known as System 91S make landfall in Australia. System 91S may not have become a tropical depression, but it's dropping heavy rainfall in Western Australia. http://phys.org/news211832139.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:15:52 EST news211832139 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. http://phys.org/news209750548.html Space & Earth Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:02:50 EST news209750548 NASA's infrared satellite imagery has confirmed that Tomas is intensifying as convection is strengthening and cloud tops within the system are getting colder. http://phys.org/news208087060.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:57:47 EST news208087060 Typhoon Megi is now over the South China Sea as a Category 3 typhoon, gaining more strength after drenching the northern Philippines. NASA satellites saw the heavy rainfall and very high thunderstorm cloud tops from space, two indications of a powerful typhoon. http://phys.org/news206791292.html Space & Earth Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:01:49 EST news206791292 At 11 a.m. EDT on Oct. 8, Otto strengthened into a hurricane, becoming the eighth hurricane of the Atlantic Ocean season. NASA's Aqua satellite and the NOAA GOES-13 satellite captured images of Otto as he intensified. http://phys.org/news205776033.html Space & Earth Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:10:01 EST news205776033 The northwestern Pacific Ocean is just as active as the Atlantic Ocean this hurricane season. The fourteenth tropical depression formed near Hainan Island, China this morning and its birth was captured by a NASA infrared satellite instrument. The NASA image showed the depression's strong thunderstorms near its center and east of its center. http://phys.org/news205517365.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:09:38 EST news205517365 NASA's Aqua satellite has peered into the cloud tops of Tropical Storm Malakas and derived just how cold they really are, giving an indication to forecasters of the strength of the storm. http://phys.org/news204479720.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:20:03 EST news204479720 This Atlantic hurricane season has now spawned 14 tropical depressions and 12 of them have strengthened into tropical storms. The latest is now called Tropical Storm Lisa and is in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Lisa when she was still a low pressure area, but showed a center of circulation and banding of thunderstorms circling it, indicating the storm was getting organized. http://phys.org/news204301367.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:40:03 EST news204301367 Infrared satellite data from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed strong convection and a tight circulation center within Typhoon Fanapi as it heads for a landfall in Taiwan this weekend. http://phys.org/news203959323.html Space & Earth Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:50:01 EST news203959323 Hurricane Igor is a monster hurricane in terms of strength and size. To get a perspective on its size, it is the same distance from one end of the storm to the other as it is from Boston, Mass. to Richmond, Va., some 550 miles. That's a 10-hour drive from one end to the other, and NASA satellites captured that entire distance in one image. http://phys.org/news203774549.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:20:02 EST news203774549 NASA satellites provide infrared images to forecasters that show temperature, and today's imagery of powerful Hurricane Igor showed the storm's perfect form and the warm ocean waters around it that are keeping it fueled. NASA's infrared data also revealed a huge difference of 170 degrees between the cold cloud tops in Hurricane Igor and the warm sea surface temperatures powering it below. http://phys.org/news203692121.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:20:01 EST news203692121 NASA's Aqua satellite flies around the Earth twice a day and captures visible and infrared imagery. On Sept. 12 at 19:20 UTC (3:20 p.m. EDT), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on Aqua captured a visible image of the "Reservoir Road Fire" that is currently raging in the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests / Pawnee National Grassland. http://phys.org/news203679017.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:30:33 EST news203679017 Tropical Storm Hermine formed very quickly yesterday in the very warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and northeastern Mexico and southeastern Texas are now bearing the brunt of the storm. Infrared imagery taken from NASA's AIRS instrument showed a quick organization of strong thunderstorms around Hermine's center of circulation and very warm Gulf waters that powered her up. http://phys.org/news203096971.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:49:53 EST news203096971 NASA's Aqua satellite noticed that the showers and thunderstorms from the remnants of Tropical Depression 5 (TD5) extended from Louisiana northeast into southwest Alabama. Infrared imagery indicated some strong thunderstorms over south central Louisiana and northwest Alabama. http://phys.org/news201449852.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:17:49 EST news201449852 The fourth Atlantic tropical depression became Tropical Storm Colin early in the morning today, August 3 and NASA and other satellites are keeping tabs on it. A GOES-13 satellite visible image at 1145 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT) on August 3, showed Tropical Storm Colin as a compact area of clouds in the central Atlantic Ocean. NASA infrared imagery from the Aqua satellite has watched Colin's convection increase over the last day, indicating the storm's strengthening to a tropical storm. http://phys.org/news200062813.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:10:01 EST news200062813 Tropical Storm Chanthu came ashore in southeastern China and continues to move inland. NASA captured both visible and infrared satellite data that showed the storm is weakening in both form and cloud temperatures. http://phys.org/news199027773.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:30:03 EST news199027773 The fourth tropical depression of the western Pacific Ocean strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Chanthu today. Infrared imagery from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured areas of strong convection from northeast to southwest, but convection isn't showing on the storm's west side. http://phys.org/news198865674.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:40:01 EST news198865674 The storm known formerly as Tropical Depression 6E, or TD6E, has been downgraded into a remnant low pressure system in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On July 16 when NASA's Aqua satellite flew over TD6E, the infrared imagery showed a small area of strong convection in the storm. http://phys.org/news198518779.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:16:34 EST news198518779 NASA satellites are keeping an eye on the changing track of Tropical Storm Conson and the conditions within the storm as it changes in strength on its track through the South China Sea. NASA's Infrared imagery revealed some strong convection in the storm as it takes a more westerly route toward another landfall. http://phys.org/news198426338.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:10:01 EST news198426338 Celia has exploded into a monster hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, and is now a Category 5 storm over open waters. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image (that shows temperature) of Celia's clouds and clearly shows an eye in the storm. Celia's eye appears well-defined and is between 15-20 nautical miles wide. http://phys.org/news196709414.html Space & Earth Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:01 EST news196709414 Infrared imagery provides forecasters with a look at the temperature of cloud tops in tropical cyclones, sea surface and land surface temperatures and more. NASA infrared imagery from the morning of June 24 revealed that Darby had strong convection that is an indicator of a strengthening storm. Tropical Storm Darby became the second hurricane of the Eastern Pacific Ocean season this morning. http://phys.org/news196618104.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:08:35 EST news196618104 The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM has been monitoring the rainfall rates in Hurricane Celia, and noticed rain is falling moderately as the storm continues to strengthen. http://phys.org/news196425517.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:38:51 EST news196425517