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ASU Scientists Discover Key Insights from Sutter’s Mill Meteorite

Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor in ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, found that the Sutter’s Mill meteorite, which…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Resurrected Tropical Storm Gabrielle

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the resurrected Tropical Storm Gabrielle on Sept. 10 at 0559 UTC/1:59 a.m. EDT, hours before it regained strength as a…

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NASA Tracks Heavy Rainfall in Strengthening Tropical Storm Humberto

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM passed near Humberto on September 10, 2013 at 0147 UTC (9:47 p.m. Sept. 9) and collected data…

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Life Discovered in Antarctic Subglacial Lake Sediments

The possibility that extreme life forms might exist in the cold and dark lakes hidden kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet has fascinated scientists for…

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New Camera Upgrade for Mars Rovers Enhances Distant World Discoveries

The change has now begun with the development of a new camera that can do more than just take pictures of alien rocks – it also thinks about what the pictures…

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Device Gives Scientists Front-Row Seat to Lightning Strikes

The Huntsville Alabama Marx Meter Array (HAMMA) sensor literally resides under a large inverted metal salad bowl to protect the electronics from rain. A modern…

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Deep-Sea Waves Uncover Mechanism for Ocean Mixing

A University of Washington study for the first time recorded such a wave breaking in a key bottleneck for circulation in the world’s largest ocean. The study…

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Satellite Sees Atlantic Tropical Depression Eight Form in Southwestern Gulf of Mexico

NOAA's GOES-East satellite image showed a large circulation associated with Tropical Depression 8 or TD8 after it was officially designated a depression by the…

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Lorena Bringing Heavy Rains to Mexico's West Coast

On Friday, Sept. 6, a tropical storm warning was in effect for Baja California Sur from Agua Blanca to Buenavista, and a tropical storm watch was in effect for…

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Satellite Data Shows a Very Active Tropical Atlantic, Gabrielle Weakens

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a view of Gabrielle, an unnamed system east of it, and Systems 99L and 98L on Sept. 5 at 10:45 a.m. EDT. NOAA's GOES-East…

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Measuring Aurora Heights with Digital SLRs: A New Method

Yet, Ryuho Kataoka from the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, came up with an idea for a new method to measure the height of aurora…

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Scientists Discover Largest Volcano on Earth

A University of Houston (UH) professor led a team of scientists to uncover the largest single volcano yet documented on Earth. Covering an area roughly…

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Deep-Ocean Carbon Sinks: Microbes in the Dark Ocean Explained

Although microbes that live in the so-called “dark ocean”—below a depth of some 600 feet where light doesn’t penetrate—may not absorb enough carbon to curtail…

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Infrared NASA Image Sees Extra-Tropical Toraji Over Japan

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument captured infrared data of Extra-Tropical Storm Toraji as it continued tracking through southern Japan on…

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West Antarctica Ice Sheet Existed 20 Million Years Earlier

The research shows that, contrary to the popularly held scientific view, an ice sheet on West Antarctica existed 20 million years earlier than previously…

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From Birth to Death in Four Days: Kiko Now a Remnant Low

Satellite data captured Tropical Storm Kiko's birth on Sept. 1 and saw its remnants weakening on Sept. 3. As Kiko dissipates, another low pressure system is…

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