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Storm killers: Earth Scan Lab tracks cold water upwellings in Gulf
Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity and duration of a hurricane or tropical weather event. As researchers ...
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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Textile antenna promises futuristic communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- With a simple press on his shirt insignia, the captain of the Star Ship Enterprise could send and receive messages. Now, thanks to the efforts of a Finnish company, this futuristic communication ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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ESA campaign reveals glimpse of future Sentinel-3 imagery
(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the development process for ESA’s Sentinel-3 Earth observation mission, remote-sensing experts carried out an extensive experiment campaign across southern Europe this summer. The ...
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Data From Newest Ocean Satellite Ready for Their 'Close-up'
Following a year of calibration and validation by an international team of scientists, fully-validated, research-quality sea surface height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 07, 2009 |
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GOES-14 Satellite Takes First Full Disk Image
(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The prime instrument on GOES, called ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Sichuan earthquake caused significant damage to giant panda habitat
When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the earthquake's impact ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- From the time he was 21 and working toward his Ph.D., Mike Behrenfeld has been observing phytoplankton -- floating ocean plants that have a global impact. Observing these tiny plants under ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Study shows strong evidence that cloud changes may exacerbate global warming
The role of clouds in climate change has been a major question for decades. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether clouds will dissipate, letting in more of the sun's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2009 |
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NASA tracking and data relay satellite mission passes major review
NASA's desire to provide outstanding communications support for the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other unmanned spacecraft moved closer to this goal in July when agency officials approved critical ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2009 |
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China environmental phenomena monitored from space
China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults ...
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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Satellites Guide Relief to Earthquake Victims
On May 28 at 2:24 a.m. local time, a deadly earthquake rocked Honduras, killing seven people and injuring several others, demolishing homes, damaging scores of other buildings, and sending terrified residents ...
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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The first global map of ammonia emissions measured from space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first complete map of global ammonia emissions has recently been achieved using to satellite data. It reveals an underestimation of some of the ammonia concentrations detected by current ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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The Aerospace Corporation nanosatellite tests the latest generation of solar cells
Scientists at The Aerospace Corporation are analyzing data received from a 6.4 kg nanosatellite they developed to test a new generation of solar cells.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 03, 2009 |
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The poop on finding penguins: Follow the guano
(AP) -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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