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NASA Tracks Wildfire Pollution Over Niagara Falls

One instrument that flies aboard two of NASA's satellites has provided two views of the pollution from the fires in Ontario. The Moderate Resolution Imaging…

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NASA eyes Tropical Storm Nock-Ten's heavy rains for Hainan Island and Vietnam

Bands of strong thunderstorms that make up tropical storm Nock-ten were visible in an infrared image captured on July 28 by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder…

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Unlocking Global Erosion: New Insights from a Century of Research

For more than a century, scientists have looked for ways to measure and compare erosion rates across differing landscapes around the globe—but with limited…

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NASA’s TRMM Data Reveals Tropical Storm Nock-Ten Rainfall

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite data was used to create a 3-D image of Tropical Storm Nock-ten's rainfall and cloud heights as it…

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Tropical Depression 11W: Impacts on Yap and Guam

Yap and Guam are both experiencing the tail end of gusty winds and rains as Tropical Depression 11W moves between the two islands in the western North Pacific…

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Reforestation's cooling influence — a result of farmer's past choices

Previous research has led scientists and politicians to believe that regrowing forests on Northern lands that were cleared in order to grow crops would not…

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Warming Climate Likely to Dramatically Increase Yellowstone Fires by Mid-Century

A study published online the week of July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that climate change could increase the frequency of…

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Tropical Depression 10W: Rain Impact on the Philippines

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression 10W on July 25 at 0441 UTC (12:41 a.m. EDT), the infrared image captured by the Atmospheric Infrared…

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NASA Captures Three Tropical Cyclones in One Stunning Image

In infrared image taken on July 22 at 0845 UTC (4:45 a.m. EDT), GOES-13 captured Tropical Depression Bret, Tropical Storm Cindy in the north Atlantic and low…

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NASA Satellites Capture Hurricane Dora’s Formidable Eye

Satellites provide a bird's eye view of a hurricane's eye, and NASA noticed Hurricane Dora's eye from several of them. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua…

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GOES Satellite Captures Triple Header of Tropical Cyclones

The GOES-13 satellite captured a triple-header in the tropics today when it captured three tropical cyclones in one image in the Northern Hemisphere.A visible…

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Landsat Satellites Monitor Ongoing Missouri River Flooding

A Landsat 5 image of the area from May 5, 2011 shows normal flow. In contrast, a Landsat 7 image from July 17 depicts flood conditions in the same location. A…

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NASA satellites confirm Tropical Storm Bret's heaviest rains on the eastern side

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over tropical storm Bret in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Bahamas on July 19, 2011 at 1118 UTC…

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NASA Satellites Track Heavy Rainfall from Typhoon Ma-on

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Ma-on early on July 19, at 0347 UTC (11:47 p.m. EDT on July 18) and imagery from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder…

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Tropical Storm Dora Strengthens, Impacts Southern Mexico Surf

Tropical Storm Dora was just a depression yesterday. Since then, NASA satellite imagery has watched Dora continue to strengthen as thunderstorm cloud tops have…

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Earthquake Soil Effects Study Could Improve Buildings

Analyzing data from multiple measurement stations, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that the quake weakened subsurface materials by as…

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