While easily seen by people, the cotton-ball clouds (called shallow cumulus clouds) that drift overhead on partly cloudy days are hard for radars and many other instruments to observe and, therefore, hard to model and predict. ...
Earth Sciences
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NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission has released preliminary data on the heights of Greenland coastal glaciers from its first airborne campaign in March 2016. The new data show the dramatic increase in coverage ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2016
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Air quality and climate change are important challenges for society. As part of Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite will be launched towards the end of the year. It carries ...
Environment
May 16, 2016
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Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. ...
Space Exploration
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