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ATom Mission interview clips — Jack Dibbs
Flying into "clean" air during #EarthExpedition ATom mission, Jack Dibbs of the University of New Hampshire explains what he expects to find on his aerosol filters as they travel to the remotest parts of the atmosphere. The ATom mission...
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ATom Postcard - Kona, Hawaii
Atmospheric scientist Jack Dibb of the University of New Hampshire sent a video postcard from the Hawaii leg of the Atmospheric Tomography or ATom mission. On its second worldwide tour, the ATom team flew into Kona, Hawaii, to study...
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Using Precipitation Data to Assess Risk of Cholera Outbreaks
A new modeling approach using satellite data will likely to enhance our ability to develop cholera risk maps in several regions of the globe. The model (GCRM) is based on monthly air temperature, precipitation, availability of WASH...
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ATom Postcard - Alaska and the Arctic
On its second worldwide tour, the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) team starts by surveying the north's polar regions during winter, which is marked by a build-up of pollution from the United States, Canada, northern China, and Russia. In...
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NASA Catches Hurricanes Jose and Maria
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission shows the rainfall distribution for two major storms churning in the Atlantic and Caribbean basins. The visualization shows Hurricane Jose as it continues to slowly move northward off...
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NASA | Intern Profile – Jorel Torres
Summer intern Jorel Torres, a graduate student from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, talks about snow research and the value of hard work, persistence, and passion.
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What is GOES-R?
The GOES-R series, NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellites, is a game changer. These satellites will provide continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, total lightning data, and space...
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Flying Over Hurricanes For New NASA Mission
NASA scientists are investigating key questions about hurricanes in a new mission from the skies. This August, the East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes, or EPOCH, mission will fly over East Pacific storms to better...
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2016 Antarctic Ozone Hole Meets Scientist Expectations
The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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NASA Sees Intense Fires around the World
This year’s wildfire season is off to a blazing start. The United States had an early start to the season, with more than 29,000 wildfires burning more than 2.6 million acres of land. The driest season in 14 years has left the southern...
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EPIC New Science from 1 Million Miles Away
NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) sits onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite at the Lagrange point 1, a million miles away from Earth. EPIC has been imaging the sunlit side of Earth between 13...
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During a Year in Orbit, IceCube Created a New Map of Earth's Clouds
Although it was only designed to last three months, the tiny CubeSat known as IceCube has been orbiting Earth for a full year, collecting data on a hard-to-study type of cloud. In that time, IceCube has created a global map of these ice...
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Weather Things: Weather Impacts
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
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Radar sees Titan's 'cat' in highest resolution images yet
1. Various of radar images of Titan's "cat"
The Cassini spacecraft has been sending back evidence that Saturn's planet-size moon Titan is geologically alive, possibly with liquids moving on its surface, scientists said on...
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NASA has unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Close-up pictures of the sun
CAPTION: NASA has unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things. (April 22)
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SPACE: MARS: NASA'S IMAGES OF MARS
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New images of the surface of Mars have been released from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor which is in orbit round the so-called Red Planet.
Scientists are excited about the pictures which will help them to understand climate...
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News conference on new project with Pluto as first stop
1. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) animation of the New Horizons spacecraft on its mission to Pluto
2. Wide shot of news conference UPSOUND (English) reporter's question: "If New Horizons is the first launch of an...
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USA: WASHINGTON: OZONE HOLE LAYER MAY CLOSE IN 10 YEARS
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Researchers in the United States say the hole in the Ozone layer - which protects the earth from harmful cosmic rays - may start closing within 10 years.
A new study says the amount of ozone-destroying chemicals in the air...
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ANTARCTICA: NASA SAYS OZONE HOLE IS DUE TO CHLORINE CHEMICALS
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American scientists say an ozone hole over Antarctica the size of North America is due to man-made causes.
They say new data from a U-S science satellite confirms that high levels of man-made chlorine chemicals are to blame....
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President Barack Obama says the recovery plan will, in part, focus on clean renewable energy and fund research into breakthroughs in energy and save our planet from climate change.
HEADLINE: Obama: Energy reform critical to economic future
CAPTION: President Barack Obama says the recovery plan will, in part, focus on clean renewable energy and fund research into breakthroughs in energy and save our planet from...
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USA: NASA SCIENTISTS FIND LARGE HOLE IN OZONE LAYER
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Scientists of the U-S space agency NASA say they're seeing the largest hole ever in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
They say the measurements taken in the last three months over the region show that the hole in that...
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ADB releases report on climate change
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYFILE: New Delhi, India - 26 May 20151. Heat shimmers outside President's residence Rashtrapati Bhavan2. People with their heads covered3. People sitting and...
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GM CEO: Stock Split Not In Shareholder Interest
General Motors shareholders have overwhelmingly turned down an activist shareholder's plan to split the company's stock into two classes. Only about nine percent of the stockholders voted for the plan from David Einhorn's Greenlight...
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Claims Sunderbans islands at risk from climate change
Sunderbans Islands
1. Various of Sunderbans Islands and mangrove forests on the banks as seen from a boat
2. Monkey sitting on a tree branch with its cub
3. Wide of a royal Bengal tiger swimming, reaching the bank then running into the...