Items tagged with Atmosphere

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Colliding Continents Oxygenated Earth? Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 - 08:56:15 - Ehud Rattner The clashing of supercontinents billions of years ago may have been responsible for the oxygen-rich atmosphere that sustains much of the life on... read more

Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter Friday, July 18th, 2008 - 12:23:28 - Anuradha Menon A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together... read more

Acidifying Oceans Increase Carbon Emission Sunday, July 6th, 2008 - 11:15:30 - Ehud Rattner It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide... read more

Saturn's Secondary Aurora: More Information Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 08:24:14 - Ehud Rattner A UK team of researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process... read more

New Details on Venus' Clouds Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 - 18:43:42 - Iddo Genuth As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System... read more

Ion Engine Enters Space Race Monday, April 21st, 2008 - 10:13:16 - Sarah Gingichashvili Engineer Neil Wallace peers into a huge vacuum chamber designed to replicate - as far as possible - the conditions of space. Cryogenic pumps can be... read more

New Views On The Sun's Magnetic Fountains Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - 12:56:07 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere. Huge fountains of hot gas erupt in the atmosphere, or corona, every... read more

Lunar Eclipse Shed Light on Climate Change Monday, March 3rd, 2008 - 08:00:00 - Ehud Rattner A team of researchers from the University of Colorado use eclipse data to track changes in the opacity of Earth's atmosphere. While most of the light... read more

Study: Snowflakes May Contain Bacteria Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 - 16:17:35 - Sarah Gingichashvili Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside - bacteria. Most snow and rain forms in chilly conditions high in the... read more

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