Items tagged with earth

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Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate Thursday, July 16th, 2009 - 16:38:36 - Anuradha Menon Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded... read more

Most Distant Supernovae Found Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 12:13:02 - Anuradha Menon By blending pictures of the deep universe, astronomers have found the faint light from two supernovae that are now the most distant stellar... read more

Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans Saturday, July 4th, 2009 - 10:34:57 - Anuradha Menon In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the... read more

LRO Sends its First Lunar Images to Earth Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 09:04:37 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively... read more

CO2 Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years Sunday, June 21st, 2009 - 17:55:12 - Ehud Rattner Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on... read more

Earth's Clearest Skies Revealed Sunday, June 7th, 2009 - 19:38:56 - Ehud Rattner Possibly the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's... read more

MIT Team Solves Volcanic Mystery Saturday, June 6th, 2009 - 14:23:21 - Anuradha Menon For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called "ring of fire" around the... read more

New Cloud Type Discovered? Friday, June 5th, 2009 - 12:45:35 - Anuradha Menon These choppy clouds over Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in an undated picture could be examples of the first new type of cloud to be recognized since 1951. Or... read more

NASA Launches 'Nebula' Compute Cloud Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 16:43:16 - Anuradha Menon NASA is ramping up a cloud computing initiative that could be used in support of its space missions and to give Earth-bound observers greater... read more

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