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NASA Sees a "Zombie" Tropical Storm Kick Off Halloween Week

Tropical Depression 9 made landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula late last week and lingered as a remnant low pressure area on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25…

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Unearthing History: 363 CE Earthquake Evidence Discovered

Silent evidence of a large earthquake in 363 CE — the skeleton of a woman with a dove-shaped pendant was discovered under the tiles of a collapsed roof by…

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NASA HS3 Mission Global Hawk's Bullseye in Hurricane Edouard

Scientists saw how upper-level wind shear was affecting Edouard on the HS3's Global Hawk flight of the 2014 campaign over Sept. 11 and 12, and saw the…

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Desert Streams: How Flash Floods Shape Dryland Landscapes

Volatile rainstorms drive complex landscape changes in deserts, particularly in dryland channels, which are shaped by flash flooding. Paradoxically, such…

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NASA's Terra Satellite Shows a More Organized Tropical Storm Ana

Ana appeared more rounded on imagery from NASA's Terra satellite as thunderstorms again circled the low-level center.

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Tropical Depression 9 Develops in Gulf of Mexico

NOAA's GOES-East Satellite captured an image of the birth of Tropical Depression 9 on Oct. 22 at 1600 UTC (12 p.m. EDT) in the western Bay of Campeche. The…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite Calculates Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo Rainfall

Tropical Storm Fay battered Bermuda on October 12, 2014 and became a hurricane after passing the island.  The following Friday powerful Hurricane Gonzalo…

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NASA Sees Himalayan Snow from Cyclone Hudhud's Remnants

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NASA's Aqua satellite sees Tropical Storm Ana still affecting Hawaii

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible picture of Tropical Storm Ana over Hawaii…

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NASA sees Gonzalo affect Bermuda's ocean sediment: Stirred, not shaken

The MODIS instrument or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer that flies aboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites provided imagery of Bermuda and the…

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NASA's HS3 Mission Continues With Flights Over Hurricane Gonzalo

The WB-57 aircraft flew over Hurricane Gonzalo on Oct. 15 carrying two HS3 mission instruments called HIWRAP and HIRAD in addition to a new Office of Naval…

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Hawaii’s Hidden Threat: Massive Debris Pile and Tsunami Risk

Scientists are reporting that a wall of water up to nine meters (30 feet) high surged onto Hawaiian shores about 500 years ago. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake off…

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NASA Launches Sixth Year of Antarctic Ice Change Study

For the next several weeks, researchers will fly aboard NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft out of Punta Arenas, Chile. This year also marks the return to western…

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Satellites Tracking Central Pacific's Tropical Storm Ana

NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) has issued a Tropical Storm Watch for Hawaii County, Hawaii. A tropical storm watch means that tropical storm…

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Major Hurricane Gonzalo Gives an "Eye-opening" Performance

A hurricane warning is in effect for Bermuda and that means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area, meaning the entire island.

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Discovering Earth’s Secrets: Samoan Volcanoes Reveal Early Formation

A UC Santa Barbara geochemist studying Samoan volcanoes has found evidence of the planet’s early formation still trapped inside the Earth. Known as…

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