Massive wave of butterflies lights up Denver weather radar
A lacy, cloud-like pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 70-mile-wide (110-kilometer) wave of butterflies, forecasters say.
Ecology
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News tagged with radar images
Asteroid Florence has two moons
Florence, an asteroid that came within 4.4 million miles (7.0 million kilometers) of Earth last week, has two small moons, according to radar images obtained by NASA.
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2017
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Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg
Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice more than twice the size ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2017
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Video: Larsen-C ice shelf crack
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission is monitoring the growing crack in Antarctica's Larsen-C ice shelf. When the ice shelf breaks off or 'calves', it will create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded – but exactly ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2017
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Image: Heavy rains in Lake Success, California
California has seen some heavy rains recently after years of drought, filling many of the state's reservoirs. The rising waters are evident in this radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission over part of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2017
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Arecibo Observatory captures revealing images of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova
Though not visible to the naked eye or even with binoculars, the green-tailed Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (HMP) did not escape the gaze of the world-renowned Arecibo Observatory. Scientists from the University of Arizona's ...
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2017
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Asteroid resembles Dungeons and Dragons dice
Radar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. They reveal an irregular, angular-appearing asteroid ...
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2017
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Early warning from space of homes on the slide
It was a literal property crash: multiple homes in the Cármenes del Mar resort on the south coast of Spain were engulfed in a landslide, leaving families homeless. But satellite archives offer early warning of such events ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2016
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Image: Poyang Lake viewed by Sentinel-1
Southern China's Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the country. Located in Jiangxi province, this lake is an important habitat for migrating Siberian cranes, many of which spend the winter there.
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2016
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Comet flying by Earth observed with radar and infrared
Astronomers were watching when comet P/2016 BA14 flew past Earth on March 22. At the time of its closest approach, the comet was about 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) away, making it the third closest comet flyby ...
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2016
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