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Satellite Imagery Reveals Potential Revival of Tropical Depression 7

NASA's GOES Project created a visible image of the remnants of Tropical Depression 7 from August 17 at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 UTC) from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite….

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ChemCam Laser Targets Mars: First Images from Curiosity Rover

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument’s remote micro imager. The successful…

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NASA Detects Wind Shear Impacting Tropical Storm Gordon

When Terra passed over Gordon on August 16, 2012 at 10:25 a.m. EDT (1425 UTC) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured a…

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NASA Sees System 93L Transform Into Tropical Storm Gordon

System 93L started out on August 10 as a tropical wave and associated low pressure area, that moved off the African coast into the eastern Atlantic. Over the…

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Ancient Egypt’s Climate Insights: Lessons on Drought Management

Ancient pollen and charcoal preserved in deeply buried sediments in Egypt's Nile Delta document the region's ancient droughts and fires, including a huge…

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Tibetan Plateau’s Age Surprises Scientists: New Findings Revealed

The Indian tectonic plate began its collision with Asia between 55 and 50 million years ago, but “significant topographic relief existed adjacent to the…

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Warming causes more extreme shifts of the Southern Hemisphere's largest rain band

The changes will result from the South Pacific rain band responding to greenhouse warming. The South Pacific rain band is largest and most persistent of the…

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GOES-15 Satellite Sees Fading Tropical Storm Hector and TD7's Remnants

NASA's GOES Project, located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., uses the GOES-15 satellite data to create images and animations from the…

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP spectrometer detects helium in moon's atmosphere

Although LAMP was designed to map the lunar surface, the team expanded its science investigation to examine the far ultraviolet emissions visible in the…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Tropical Storm Kai-tak Approaching Hong Kong

NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on Kai-tak when it passed overhead on August 15 at 0517 UTC (1:17 a.m. EDT/1:17 p.m. local time, Hong Kong)….

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Simulating Volcano Eruptions, One Blast at a Time

Two dozen people fell silent before a muffled blast sent a geyser-like shower of crushed gravel, limestone and asphalt roughly 50 feet in the air. Moments…

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Fresh Water Breathes Fresh Life Into Hurricanes

Although the probability that hurricanes will hit such conditions is small, ranging from 10 to 23 percent, the effect is potentially large: Hurricanes can…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees a small area of heavy rain left in Tropical Storm Hector

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM is managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency. From its orbit in space, TRMM's…

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NASA Forecasts Increased Rainfall From Tropical Storm Kai-Tak

Kai-tak has caused another day of warnings in the Philippines. On August 14, Public storm warning signal #1 is in effect for these provinces in Luzon: La…

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Predictions For Arctic Sea Ice Low Point: What to Expect

When averaged, the predictions have come in remarkably close to the mark in the past two years. But the low and high predictions are off by hundreds of…

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Rediscovered Skull Bone Offers New Insights in Paleontology

Now, however, paleontologists from the University of Zurich have rediscovered it: the “os interparietale”, a skull bone also referred to as the interparietal….

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