Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Monitors Strengthening Pacific Tropical Cyclone

Infrared data gathered by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument indicate cloud top temperatures as well as sea surface temperatures. NASA's…

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Traveling Through a Volcano

Recent eruptions have demonstrated our continued vulnerability to ash dispersal, which can disrupt the aviation industry and cause billions of dollars in…

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Temperature and CO2 Levels: New Insights on Climate Change

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise…

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Ancient Seawater Changes Linked to Past Climate Shifts

Scientists have discovered a potential cause of Earth's “icehouse climate” cooling trend of the past 45 million years. It has everything to do with the…

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Croscat Volcano: Spain’s Last Eruption 13,000 Years Ago

It is also the youngest volcanic area. Although the approximate age of some of these volcanic constructions is known, one of the main problems when studying…

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Ancient Meteorites Reveal Clues About Early Solar System

New research from a team including Carnegie's Doug Rumble and Liping Qin focuses on one particularly old type of meteorite called diogenites. These samples…

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NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Khanun's remnants dissipating over China

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Khanun on July 18, 19 and 20 and tracked the northeastern progression of the tropical cyclone after it made landfall. On…

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Tropical Depression Khanun blankets South Korea

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a true-color image of Tropical Depression Khanun…

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Understanding the Impact of Sumatra’s Magnitude-8.6 Earthquake

The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Post-Tropical Storm Fabio

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over post-tropical storm Fabio on July 18 at 1023 UTC (6:23 a.m. EDT), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument…

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NASA Observes Tropical Storm Khanun Weakening Before Landfall

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Khanun on July 18 at 0459 UTC (12:59 a.m. EDT), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument…

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Why Is Earth So Dry?

Astronomers have been puzzled by Earth's water deficiency. The standard model explaining how the solar system formed from a protoplanetary disk, a swirling…

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Glacier Break Creates Ice Island 2x Size of Manhattan

Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering in UD’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, reports the calving on July…

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NASA Monitors Tropical Storm Fabio Approaching Southern California

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Fabio on July 16 at 2135 UTC (5:35 p.m. EDT), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured…

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NASA's TRMM satellite eyeing Tropical Storm Khanun's rainfall

The TRMM satellite had an excellent daytime look at Tropical Storm Khanun near Okinawa in the northwestern Pacific Ocean on July 17, 2012 at 0439 UTC (12:39…

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Maya’s Largest Ancient Dam Discovered in Central America

That dam – constructed from cut stone, rubble and earth – stretched more than 260 feet in length, stood about 33 feet high and held about 20 million gallons of…

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