Sky's no limit in high-flying goose chase
Jessica Meir turns around and looks at the gaggle of geese behind her and asks "Are you guys ready?"
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2011
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Page 26 - News tagged with high altitudes
Mission into ice clouds: Q&A with MACPEX pilot Bill Rieke
The Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) is a NASA field campaign that is investigating cirrus cloud properties and the processes that affect their impact on solar radiation. The campaign uses NASA's ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2011
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Scientists reach beyond the clouds with mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
Engineering scientists at the University of Southampton have reached above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to develop new technologies that probe the stratosphere using an unmanned vehicle.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2011
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Mysterious noctilucent clouds as seen from space
Mysterious "night shining" or noctilucent clouds are beautiful to behold, and are usually seen during the summertime, appearing at sunset. They are thin, wavy ice clouds that form at very high altitudes and reflect sunlight ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2011
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MABEL flies her maiden voyage
Flying at the edge of space, a pilot wearing high-altitude flight gear maneuvered the ER-2 aircraft last month over the California desert. At 12 miles above the ground the temperature outside had plummeted to -70 F (-56 C) ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2011
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Dracula fish, bald bird among strange new species
Dracula fish, a bald songbird and a seven-metre (23 feet) tall carnivorous plant are among several unusual new species found in the Greater Mekong region last year, researchers said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Oct 6, 2010
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Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission
NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank in the eastern ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2010
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Scientists try to harness super-winds that once carried bombs
The man from the Forest Service burst into the switchboard room with orders for the young operator. Keep quiet, he told Cora Conner, 16. Stay put.
Other
Aug 20, 2010
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Mountain mice show adaptation to altitude
This fuel-preference represents an adaptation in high altitude mice to use oxygen more efficiently than their low-altitude counterparts.
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2010
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Experimental explanation of supercooling: Why water does not freeze in the clouds (w/ Video)
Supercooling, a state where liquids do not solidify even below their normal freezing point, still puzzles scientists today. A good example of this phenomenon is found everyday in meteorology: clouds in high altitude are an ...
Soft Matter
Apr 21, 2010
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