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Flying over the cloudy world -- science updates from Venus Express Jul 12, 2006 On 20 April 2006, after its first 9-day, elongated orbit around Venus, ESA's Venus Express started to get closer to the planet, until it reached its final 24-hour long orbit on 7 May. During this time, and ...

Chemical Cause of Antarctic Ozone Hole Discovered 20 Years Ago This Month Aug 22, 2006 Twenty years ago this month, government and university scientists ventured to Antarctica to study the cause of a hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the southernmost continent. Those observations were ...

SMART-1's bridge to the future exploration of the Moon Mar 09, 2007 ESA's SMART-1 moon mission has become a bridge to the future of lunar science and exploration.

CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery Mar 12, 2007 Building a satellite in just three years is without doubt an ambitious undertaking. Nevertheless, the decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the mission is ...

Satellites Offer Sunny Outlook on Understanding Polar Climate, With Help of Cloudy Skies Apr 24, 2007 Far beyond signaling the day’s weather, clouds play a key role in regulating and understanding climate. A team of researchers recently completed a project to confirm what NASA satellites are telling us about ...

NASA airborne expedition chases climate, ozone questions Jun 27, 2007 NASA's Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) field campaign will begin this summer in San Jose, Costa Rica, with an investigation into how chemical compounds in the air are transported vertically into the ...

'Asian Brown Cloud' Particulate Pollution Amplifies Global Warming Aug 01, 2007 Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now, a new analysis of pollution-filled ...

NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution Apr 01, 2008 NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution WASHINGTON -- This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. ...