News tagged with earths surface
Penn State expert determined to find life on Earth-like planets
Thanks to popular Hollywood films like "E.T.," "Avatar" and "Super 8," life on other planets seems highly conceivable to people who have considered the idea that we are not alone in the universe. Jim Kasting, distinguished ...
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For Aquarius, sampling seas no 'grain of salt' task
(PhysOrg.com) -- The breakthrough moment for oceanographer Gary Lagerloef, the principal investigator for NASA's new Aquarius mission, came in 1991. That's when he knew it would be possible to make precise ...
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May 26, 2011 |
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Aquarius to illuminate links between salt, climate
When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's latest alignment ...
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May 12, 2011 |
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Clouds' effect on sunlight energy at Earth's surface depends on the wavelength of light
Bouncing around from cloud to cloud, and down to Earth, sunlight's warmth is both enhanced and blocked by clouds. Atmospheric scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that clouds' overall ...
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May 09, 2011 |
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NASA airborne radar set to image Hawaiian volcanoes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface.
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Going to Earth's core for climate insights
(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest evidence of the dominant role humans play in changing Earth's climate comes not from observations of Earth's ocean, atmosphere or land surface, but from deep within its molten core.
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Mar 10, 2011 |
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Antarctic sea temperatures cooled in Holocene but now rising: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of an ocean sediment core taken from deep water off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula is beginning to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of climate variability ...
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Feb 10, 2011 |
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Image: Earth from space -- wind-inspired design
The pastel colours and soft, flowing shapes in this Envisat radar image of the Tanezrouft Basin in the Algerian Sahara contradict the harshness of the terrain that has led to it being commonly referred to ...
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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NASA uses new method to estimate earth mass movements
NASA and European researchers have conducted a novel study to simultaneously measure, for the first time, trends in how water is transported across Earth's surface and how the solid Earth responds to the retreat ...
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Sep 14, 2010 |
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Breakthrough achieved in explaining why tectonic plates move the way they do
A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth's surface.
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Jul 16, 2010 |
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Ambient marine noise as an eco-friendly way to monitor ocean physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a noisy place. Raindrops smack the surface, waves break, whales sing, and ship engines roar. These can all coalesce into a cacophony of underwater noise that, to many, would just ...
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Jul 09, 2010 |
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Radar satellites aim to create most precise 3D pictures of Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A German radar satellite TanDEM-X was launched on June 21 by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to join an identical satellite, TerraSAR-X, which was launched in 2007. The two satellites will ...
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Jun 22, 2010 |
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Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon
(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
Jul 20, 2009 |
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STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of a Solar Storm in 3D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions ...
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars
Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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