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Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

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Nov 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...

New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida (w/ Video)

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Nov 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

GOES satellite sees bulk of Ida's clouds and rain inland while center making landfall

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Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Tropical Storm Ida made landfall around 6:40 a.m. ET this morning on Dauphin Island, along the Alabama coastline. NASA's GOES Project created the latest image from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ...

Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic

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Nov 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary ...

NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts

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Nov 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Ida and captured her rainfall when she passed by Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize this weekend. TRMM data revealed ...

TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space (w/ Video)

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Nov 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as "TRMM" has the ability to measure rainfall from space, and assessed the heavy rainfall from last week's coastal low pressure area, formerly known ...

NASA satellites make a movie and get rainfall, wind info on Ida (w/ Video)

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Nov 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA satellites are amazing examples of technology. The TRMM satellite peers into tropical cyclones and can tell how much rain is falling per hour and where. QuikScat uses microwave technology to measure Ida's ...

QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on Tropical Storm Anja

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Nov 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two instruments ...

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

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Nov 16, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...

Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines

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Oct 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae's cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m. (Asia/Manila) ...

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