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Night View of Hurricane Isaac
Suomi NPP captured this view of Hurricane Isaac's clouds (lit by moonlight) and the cities near the Gulf Coast of the United States at 1:57 a.m. local time.
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NASA-Funded Study Helps Untangle Methane Mystery
A new NASA-funded study has largely accounted for the dramatic leveling-off in atmospheric methane levels seen at the end of the 20th century.
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Suomi NPP Captures Russian, African Fires' Smoke
Powerful fires currently scorching parts of Russia and Africa sent up plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, observed by Suomi NPP.
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Tracking Shuttle Exhaust Reveals More Information About Atmospheric Winds
Scientists tracked space shuttle exhaust plumes to study airflow in the upper atmosphere. The water vapor spread faster than expected and collected near the Arctic to form noctilucent clouds.
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Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To New Low In Satellite Era
The declining sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted down to its smallest size since satellite observations began in the late 1970s. The current size of the polar cap surpassed the previous record set in 2007.
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NASA's IceBridge Seeking New View of Changing Sea Ice
NASA's Operation IceBridge gathers data on changing Arctic sea ice, including new data that could be used in future seasonal sea ice forecasts.
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Hurricane Katrina: 7 Years Ago
Seven years ago on Aug. 29 the center of Hurricane Katrina moved ashore near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Read all of the storm history here.
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NASA Expands Network for Measurement of Tiny Airborne Particles
NASA Langley's expanding climate research hub in Hampton, Va., is now part of a worldwide network of atmospheric measurements.
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
HS3, will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
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Slumgullion Imaging: Hows and Whys of a Landslide
Radar images of Colorado's centuries-old Slumgullion landslide from NASA's C-20A Earth science aircraft aid scientists' understanding of slide motion.
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Summer Storm Spins Over Arctic
An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean.
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NASA's New Way to Track Formaldehyde
Urban pollution, such as formaldehyde, that winds up in Earth's upper atmosphere can wreak havoc on the ozone layer.
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Mount Tongariro Erupts →
Late on Aug. 6, 2012, New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupted for the first time in 115 years.
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Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
A key ingredient for 'night shining clouds' comes from outer space. Scientists have detected bits of 'meteor smoke' imbedded in them.
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NASA Global Hawk Pilots Face Challenges Flying Hurricane Missions
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission will be a complex one for the pilots flying NASA's Global Hawk aircraft from the ground.
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Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming
A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth's land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century.
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Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America
Scientists used satellites to measure for the first time from space the amount of tiny airborne particles entering North America, and concluded that dust, not pollution, is the main ingredient of the imported particles.
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Q&A with Atmospheric Scientist Hongbin Yu
Atmospheric scientist Hongbin Yu describes the implications of a new calculation showing that 64 million tons of dust, pollution and other particles survive a trans-ocean journey to arrive over North America each year.
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Carbon-Eaters on the Black Sea →
The multitude of single-celled algae swirling in this image are most likely coccolithophores, one of Earth’s champions of carbon pumping.
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Scott Braun Discusses Upcoming Hurricane Campaign
HS3 is a five-year mission specifically targeted to investigate hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin.