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NASA's TRMM satellite sees a well-organized, major Typhoon Songda
Typhoon Songda was east of the Philippines when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite had an early evening view on May 25, 2011 at 0903 UTC (05:03 EDT) and saw good organization within the ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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GOES-13 satellite video close-up of deadly Joplin, Missouri tornado
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 provides forecasters with continuous visible and infrared imagery of weather systems across the U.S. and a new movie from the NASA GOES project gives a ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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NASA's infrared satellite imagery shows a stronger Typhoon Songda
Songda is now a typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as it continues tracking parallel to the eastern coast of Luzon, Philippines. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that the ...
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May 25, 2011 |
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Songda singing of rain and gusty winds for the Philippines
"Rainy days and Mondays" is the song that the residents of the northern Philippines do not want to hear if it involves the approaching Tropical Storm Songda. The Carpenters song was a hit, but a hit from Songda ...
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May 24, 2011 |
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Northrop Grumman unveils new intel airplane
(AP) -- Northrop Grumman Corp. on Monday unveiled a new type of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that can be flown either robotically or with a pilot aboard.
May 11, 2011 |
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Virtual possessions have powerful hold on teenagers, researchers say
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt ...
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May 09, 2011 |
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Journey to the center of the Amazon
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth and home to millions of species. Yet, deforestation, or the clearing of forested areas, poses a threat to the livelihood of the forest.
May 05, 2011 |
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GOES satellite follows tracks of powerful U.S. storm
A powerful storm system with a history of severe weather continues to march across the U.S. and toward the east coast today. The low and associated cold front was captured in a two-day animation of GOES-13 satellite imagery.
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Apr 28, 2011 |
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Ring around the hurricanes: Satellites can predict storm intensity
Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use existing ...
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Apr 20, 2011 |
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Gold prices spur six-fold spike in Amazon deforestation
Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon has increased six-fold in recent years as small-scale miners, driven by record gold prices, blast and clear more of the lowland rainforest, according to a new Duke University-led ...
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Hundreds of barrier islands newly identified in global survey
Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new global survey by researchers from Duke University and Meredith College.
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Apr 19, 2011 |
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GOES-13 satellite animation shows US severe storms and tornado outbreak
The GOES-13 satellite captured images of the powerful weather system that triggered severe weather in the southern U.S. this weekend, and NASA created an animation to show its progression. GOES-13 satellite ...
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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NASA sees Australian newborn Tropical Storm Errol's strongest T-storms off-shore
The low pressure area formerly known as System 92S has strengthened overnight and developed into Tropical Storm Errol today, April 15. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed strong thunderstorms ...
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Apr 15, 2011 |
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The shape-shifting southern vortex of Venus
(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. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Airplane contrails worse than CO2 emissions for global warming: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, Dr. Ulrike Burkhardt and Dr. Bernd Karcher from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre show that the co ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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