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NASA's CloudSat captures a sideways look at fading Lana

CloudSat captures a sideways look at fading Lana

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellites do some really cool things, like take a sideways look at a slice of a tropical depression. That's what CloudSat did with Lana in the Central Pacific.


NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming

NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming

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created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists ...





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Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Conducted

Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Conducted

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere was conducted September 19 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.


NASA's AIM Satellite and Models are Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds (w/ Video)

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite has captured five complete polar seasons of noctilucent (NLC) or "night-shining" clouds with an unprecedented horizontal resolution ...


Clouds: Lighter than air but laden with lead

Atmospheric lead causes clouds to form more easily, could change pattern of rain and snow

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created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- By sampling clouds -- and making their own -- researchers have shown for the first time a direct relation between lead in the sky and the formation of ice crystals that foster clouds. The ...


Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

Mysterious X-rays from a Nearby Galaxy

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nucleus of an active galaxy, an AGN, contains a massive black hole that is vigorously accreting material. In the process it typically ejects jets of particles and radiates brightly at ...


Rick's remnants now merged with a low in the Central US

Rick's remnants now merged with a low in the Central US

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Aqua satellite captured Rick's remnant clouds and showers as they charged through Texas and fed moisture into a low pressure system that is migrating across the U.S. By mid-day on October 22, Rick's ...


Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.


CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

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created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...


NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.


Tropical Storm Nepartak becoming extra-tropical at sea

Tropical Storm Nepartak becoming extra-tropical at sea

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical Storm Nepartak is now speeding in a northeasterly direction in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it is becoming extra-tropical and developing frontal qualities.


Birth of a star predicted

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...



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