Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

NASA Imagery Reveals Weakening of Tropical Depression 6E

The image, captured on July 15 at 2105 UTC 5:05 p.m. EDT was captured when 6E was still a tropical depression. By July 16, 6E was a remnant low pressure area…

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Indian Ocean Sea Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas

Sea level rise is particularly high along the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, the authors found. The rise-which…

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Caltech Measures Titan Lake Depths Using Cassini Data

Using data gathered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over a span of four years, the researchers—led by graduate student Alexander G. Hayes of the California…

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Glaciers and Sea-Level Rise: The Impact of Floating Icebergs

Floating glaciers also produce icebergs more erratically. These new observations may help researchers better understand and predict iceberg production from…

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Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

In an unprecedented find, a team of University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers has unearthed from the cave floor hundreds of beautifully preserved…

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Noninvasive Probing of Geological Core Samples

Conductivity, a material's ability to carry an electrical current, is one of the most useful measurements of core samples. The conductivity of a geological…

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GOES-11 Satellite Monitors System 96E’s Tropical Formation

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-11 keeps a watchful eye over the western U.S. and that includes the Eastern Pacific Ocean….

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NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Tropical Storm Conson now in South China Sea

At 1500 UTC (10 a.m. EDT/10 p.m. local Asia/Manila time) on July 14, Tropical Storm Conson was located about 225 nautical miles west-northwest of Manila, the…

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NASA's 3-D animation of Typhoon Conson's heavy rainfall and strong thunderstorms

The TRMM satellite got a good view of tropical storm Conson (known as “Basyang” in the Philippines) in the west Pacific Ocean as it passed directly overhead on…

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Tropical Storm Conson: NASA’s Stunning Satellite Capture

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Typhoon Conson at 04:55 UTC…

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NASA’s GOES-13 Satellite Captures Hurricane Alex’s Journey

Hurricane Alex struggled for life for two weeks in June 2010, and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) known as GOES-13 captured…

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Tropical Storm Conson Develops East of Manila, Philippines

Conson, known locally in the Philippines as “Tropical Storm Basyang,” was about 400 nautical miles east of Manila, Philippines, near 14.4 North and 127.1 East…

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Greenland Glacier Breakup: Researchers Capture Overnight Retreat

Research teams led by Ian Howat of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University and Paul Morin, director of the Antarctic Geospatial Information…

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Tree Loss in the Amazon: Impact of 2005 Storm Revealed

While storms have long been recognized as a cause of Amazon tree loss, this study is the first to produce an actual body count. And, the losses are much…

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NASA satellites see high, cold thunderstorm cloud tops in Tropical Depression 2

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared look at TD2's high thunderstorm cloud tops…

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New findings indicate sediment composition affected the strength of Sumatran earthquake

Sumatra experiences frequent seismic activity because it is located near the boundary of two of Earth's tectonic plates. Earthquakes occur at 'subduction…

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