News tagged with northern polar region
NASA's Dawn collects a bounty of beauty from Vesta
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2011 |
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US wants limits on Antarctic tourism
(AP) -- The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.
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Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights
(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Discovery of historical photos sheds light on Greenland ice loss
A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting today.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2012 |
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Heavy ice could delay start of Shell Alaska's Arctic drilling
The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said.
May 28, 2012 |
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How big are sunspots?
The short answer? Really big. The long answer? Really, really big.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2012 |
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Elephant seal tracking reveals hidden lives of deep-diving animals
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who pioneered the use of satellite tags to monitor the migrations of elephant seals have compiled one of the largest datasets available for any marine mammal species, ...
May 15, 2012 |
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EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather
The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2012 |
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Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the Sun
Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters
Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes, a recent study by researchers ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Satellite observes rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctic
One of the satellite's first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica – when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Mercury's surprising core and landscape curiosities
(PhysOrg.com) -- On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2012 |
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