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Tropical Storm Conson sweeping through the Northern Philippines
Tropical Storm Conson became a typhoon overnight with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the storm as it was making landfall in Luzon, the Philippines. Conson ...
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Jul 13, 2010 |
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Celia and Darby are now both weakening tropical storms
The Eastern Pacific twins, Darby and Celia were once both major hurricanes and today are just barely hanging on to tropical storm status. Both are forecast to continue weakening over the next day or two.
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Jun 28, 2010 |
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Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Image: Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Willow Garage's PR2 robot learns to play pool (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Willow Garage "Poolshark" team has programmed one of its robots - in under a week - to play pool, and to play it quite impressively.
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Peering into the never before seen (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can now peer into the inner workings of catalyst nanoparticles 3,000 times smaller than a human hair within nanoseconds. The findings point the way toward future work that could ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Image: Oil Slick June 10th View
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aqua satellite saw oil slick in sunglint on June 10.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Tropical Cyclone Phet intensifies, coastal Oman bracing for strong winds, heavy rains
Tropical storm Phet intensified over the last 24 hours and has grown into a full-blown and powerful cyclone. NASA's Terra satellite imagery of the storm from earlier today also revealed an eye in the storm, ...
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Jun 02, 2010 |
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Imaging technique enables studies on the dynamics of nanocatalysts at unprecedented spatial, temporal resolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny catalyst materials may take part in a rich variety of very fast physical and chemical processes which can now be revealed more precisely thanks to a new imaging mode for dynamic transmission ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Image: Phytoplankton Bloom in the North Atlantic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Late May 2010 brought peacock-hued swirls of blue and green to the North Atlantic. The iridescent waters formed a giant arc hundreds of kilometers across, extending from west of Ireland to ...
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May 26, 2010 |
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Phoenix Mars Lander is Silent, New Image Shows Damage
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows signs ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 24, 2010 |
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Aqua satellite sees sunglint on Gulf oil slick
At 3 p.m. EDT on May 18, NASA's Aqua satellite swept over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from its vantage point in space and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument captured sunglints in ...
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May 19, 2010 |
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NASA's Terra sees ash plume pulled to the northeast by a low
NASA's Terra satellite continues to provide visible and infrared imagery of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano ash plume, and the most recent imagery showed the plume being pulled in a northeasterly direction ...
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May 18, 2010 |
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Volcanic plume meets and occluded weather front, changes wind direction
A visible satellite image on Wednesday, May 12 at 13:10 UTC (9:10 a.m. EDT) from NASA's Aqua satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano's ...
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May 13, 2010 |
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