Image: Darkness descending on Saturn
Saturn's unusual appearance in this picture is a result of the planet being imaged via an infrared filter.
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Scientists find methane in Mars meteorites
An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2015
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Flight of the methane hunters
At just a bit over crop duster height, University of Michigan researchers are flying through a 50-square-mile hotspot of the greenhouse gas methane over the U.S. Southwest.
Environment
Apr 23, 2015
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Scientists seek source of giant methane mass over Southwest
Scientists are working to pinpoint the source of a giant mass of methane hanging over the southwestern U.S., which a study found to be the country's largest concentration of the greenhouse gas.
Environment
Apr 9, 2015
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Scientists take aim at Four Corners methane mystery
Researchers from several institutions are in the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest with a suite of airborne and ground-based instruments, aiming to uncover reasons for a mysterious methane "hot spot" detected from ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 8, 2015
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Management of peatlands has large climate impacts
Drainage and management of pristine peatlands increase greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. A recent study, based on a new, wide data set collected from northern peatlands indicates that particularly those peatlands ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2015
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Looking to space to quantify natural gas leaks on Earth
The recent increase in natural gas production could provide a bridge to a lower carbon future because it generates half the carbon dioxide (CO2) of coal when burned. However, natural gas that is leaked into the atmosphere ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2015
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Titan's was atmosphere created by gases escaping the core
A decade ago, a tiny but mighty probe descended into the soupy atmosphere of Titan. This moon of Saturn is of great interest to astrobiologists because its chemistry and liquid cycle remind us of what the early Earth could ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2015
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The Curiosity robot confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere which may hint that existed life
The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosphere after an exhaustive ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2015
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Alaska shows no signs of rising Arctic methane
Despite large temperature increases in Alaska in recent decades, a new analysis of NASA airborne data finds that methane is not being released from Alaskan soils into the atmosphere at unusually high rates, as recent modeling ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2014
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