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Planetary scientists solve 40-year-old mysteries of Mars' northern ice cap

Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series of spiral troughs—solving a pair of mysteries dating back ...

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created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.

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created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Cassini sees the two faces of Titan's Dunes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of radar data from NASA's Cassini mission, in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, has revealed regional variations among sand dunes on Saturn's ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New research shows 1992 earthquake in Pakistan was due to rare horizontal shift

(PhysOrg.com) -- The media (and school teachers, of course) has done a very good job of informing most people about how earthquakes work. We can all very easily imagine two great plates rubbing against one ...

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan

On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling ...

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created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault that Caused Deadly 2003 Quake in Iran

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside’s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake ...

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created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon's Shadowed Craters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.

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created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Greenland's current loss of ice mass

The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm per year. This trend increases each year by a further 0.07 millimeters ...

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created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Storm Sanvu continue to intensify

Two NASA satellites have provided infrared and rainfall data that has shown Tropical Storm Sanvu continues to intensify as it heads toward Iwo To, Japan. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two NASA satellites spy Alberto, the Atlantic Ocean season's first tropical storm

The first tropical storm of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season formed off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 5 p.m. EDT, and NASA satellites were immediately keeping track of it. NASA's ...

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TRMM satellite sees hot towers in Cyclone Koji

Hot towers, or towering thunderclouds that give off an excessive amount of latent heat, usually indicate a tropical cyclone will strengthen in six hours, and NASA's TRMM satellite saw some of them as it passed ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite measures heavy rainfall in Madagascar from System 92S

A weak tropical low pressure area known as System 92S, and locally called Irina caused flooding over northern Madagascar less than two weeks after deadly flooding by Tropical Cyclone Giovanna in the south ...

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Cyclone Jasmine in 3-D

Data from NASA's TRMM satellite was used to create a 3-Dimensional look at Cyclone Jasmine, currently moving through the South Pacific Ocean.

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite sees the power in Tropical Storm Alenga

The first tropical storm of the Southern Indian Ocean season has been renamed from Tropical Storm 01S to Tropical Storm Alenga as it continues to strengthen. NASA's TRMM satellite was able to capture a look ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thunderstorms in Southeastern US

Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through ...

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0