Lightning triggers powerful electrical bursts in Earth's atmosphere almost every second. The inner workings of these magnificent forces of nature are still unknown, but a rare observation by an ESA astronaut gave a boost ...
Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2018
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Some websites are falsely claiming that NASA has "confessed" to "dosing Americans" with lithium and other chemicals.
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2018
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Designing climate experiments is all but impossible in the real world. We can't, for instance, study the effects of clouds by taking away all the clouds for a set period of time and seeing what happens.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2018
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No, I'm not talking about Americans. I'm talking about intelligent life out in the cosmos.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2018
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Slowed by skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, ESA's ExoMars has lowered itself into a planet-hugging orbit and is about ready to begin sniffing the Red Planet for methane.
Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2018
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A European space probe has swung into position around Mars in preparation to analyze its atmosphere for possible signs of life.
Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2018
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Global wind and temperature measurements in the lower thermosphere (100-150 km above Earth) are the two most important variables needed to accurately predict space weather and climate change. An innovative technique is being ...
Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2018
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NASA's first mission to provide unprecedented measurements of, and changes in, the temperature and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere launched at 5:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 25, from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2018
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On Jan. 25, 2018, NASA launches Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, a hosted payload aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite. GOLD will investigate the dynamic intermingling of space and ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2018
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Facing a climate crisis, we may someday spray sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to form a cloud that cools the Earth, but suddenly stopping the spraying would have a severe global impact on animals and plants, according ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2018
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