Earth Sciences

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Suomi NPP Satellite Monitors Typhoon Rammasun Near Philippines

When NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Rammasun on July 14 at 04:20 UTC, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard took…

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Nomads Face Socio-Economic Challenges Over Climate Change

This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Cologne, who simulated ecological…

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NASA Adds Up Tropical Storm Neoguri's Deluge from Space

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite measured that soaking from its orbit in space and data…

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Australia’s Drying Climate Linked to Greenhouse Gas Impact

NOAA scientists have developed a new high-resolution climate model that shows southwestern Australia's long-term decline in fall and winter rainfall is caused…

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NASA’s High-Flying Laser Altimeter to Check Out Summer Sea Ice and More

Icy areas look different from a satellite’s perspective as well. When NASA launches the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, in 2017, it…

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Shark Teeth Analysis Reveals Arctic Climate Change Insights

The Arctic today is best known for its tundra and polar bear population, but it wasn’t always like that. Roughly 53 to 38 million years ago during what is…

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NASA-NOAA Satellite Tracks Power in New Tropical Depression 09W

Because TD09W is close to land areas, watches are already in effect. On July 10, a tropical storm watch is in force for Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.

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NASA, NOAA Satellites Confirm Tropical Storm Fausto’s Status

Forecaster Beven at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that “satellite imagery, overnight scatterometer data, and a recent GPM satellite microwave…

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NASA-JAXA's New Precipitation Satellite Sees First Atlantic Hurricane

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory flew over Hurricane Arthur five times between July 1 and July 5, 2014. Arthur is the first tropical…

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Satellite sees newborn Tropical Storm Fausto being 'chased'

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-West captured a combination visible and infrared image of the Eastern Pacific on July 8 at 1500…

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Mercury’s Origins: Impact of Early Hit-and-Run Collisions

The origin of planet Mercury has been a difficult question in planetary science because its composition is very different from that of the other terrestrial…

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NASA Satellites Analyze Powerful Typhoon Neoguri

Typhoon Neoguri formed in the western Pacific Ocean south-southeast of Guam on July 3, 2014. Since then Neoguri has become increasingly more powerful and…

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Unveiling Mesophotic Coral Reef Geology: A New Study Insights

A new study on biological erosion of mesophotic tropical coral reefs, which are low energy reef environments between 30-150 meters deep, provides new insights…

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EARTH Magazine: Preserving Peru's petrified forest

With its existence unknown to scientists until the early 1990s — and its significance unbeknownst to villagers — this ancient forest hosts the remains of more…

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SAR11, oceans’ most abundant organism, has ability to create methane

Now a new study by researchers at Oregon State University demonstrates the ability of some strains of the oceans’ most abundant organism – SAR11 – to generate…

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NASA Satellites Track Neoguri’s Transformation Into Super Typhoon

On July 4 at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT) Neoguri had maximum sustained winds near 55 knots (63.2 mph/101.9 kph). It was located near 13.1 north and 141.4 east, about…

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