A study co-authored by Southwest Research Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr. Jason Hofgartner explains the unusual radar signatures of icy satellites orbiting Jupiter and Saturn. Their radar signatures, which differ ...
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2023
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Tens of thousands of thunderstorms may rumble around the world each day, but accurately predicting the time and location where they will form remains a grand challenge of computer weather modeling. A new technique combining ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 9, 2023
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The NISAR Earth science mission has moved a step closer to its 2024 launch. Its science payload of two radar systems, one built by NASA and the other by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), recently completed the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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Glaciers—giant rivers of moving ice—along Antarctica's coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean waters, say researchers.
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
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On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long as it is wide safely flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between the Moon and Earth). ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 18, 2023
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To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2023
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Ground-penetrating radar from China's Martian rover Zhurong reveals shallow impact craters and other geologic structures in the top five meters of the Red Planet's surface. The images of the Martian subsurface are presented ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 14, 2023
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Türkiye and Syria are reeling from one of the worst earthquakes to strike the region in almost a century. Tens of thousands of people have been killed with many more injured in this tragedy.
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2023
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War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover.
Space Exploration
Feb 3, 2023
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Birds including swallows and martins—known as aerial insectivores—control insect populations and insect-borne disease and provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of pest control for agriculture. But these feathered ...
Ecology
Jan 27, 2023
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