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NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting LowerPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2012 Earth's clouds got a little lower - about one percent on average - during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate. Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2000 to February 2010) from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. ... read more |
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  Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment drive, and while organizers wait fo ... more | .. |
  Sea Launch on Track to Loft Intelsat 19 Sea Launch AG, through Energia Logistics Ltd., has conducted a Hardware Acceptance Review of the Zenit-2S launch vehicle to be utilized in support of the Intelsat 19 mission. A team of special ... more | .. |
  Russia to Launch 2 Glonass Satellites in 2012 Russia will launch two Glonass satellites in 2012 to expand its global satellite navigation network in orbit, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's ... more | .. |
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 From Bass Strait to the Indian Ocean - tracking a current Deep-diving ocean "gliders" have revealed the journey of Bass Strait water from the Tasman Sea to the Indian Ocean. Deployed in 2010 and 2011, the gliders have also profiled a 200-metre tall wall of ... more | .. |
  Dusty Mars Rover's Self-Portrait This self-portait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter. The dust reduces the rover's ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been ... more | .. |
  Laser radar illuminates the way to deep space This car was not snapped with a camera but scanned by a 3D imaging lidar, the laser equivalent of radar. ESA is developing the sensor as a navigation aid for exploring deep space. Lidar stands ... more |
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  Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus Is there life under the icy crust of Enceladus? The Cassini spacecraft has confirmed the existence of active ice-spewing fissures on the surface of Enceladus. Giant jets of water ice are shot into s ... more | .. |
  SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was ... more | .. |
  Lava formations in western US linked to rip in giant slab of Earth Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon ar ... more | .. |
 NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees In A New Light A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how ... more |
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 The Legacy of the Megaflood Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled Scabla ... more | .. |
  Israel deploys Iron Dome ABM battery Israel, struggling with rogue Palestinian missile launches of indigenous Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip, has deployed countermeasures. ... more | .. |
  Bulava missile dangerous for Russia: Experts Russian experts have questioned how wise it was to adopt the troubled Bulava intercontinental missile for service, suggesting it would cause more security problems than it would solve. Accordi ... more | .. |
 Putin pledges 400 ICBMs for Russia in 10 years Russia's armed forces will receive over 400 modern intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), more than 100 military spacecraft and over 2,300 new tanks within the next 10 years, Prime Minister an ... more |
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Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
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  Star Cluster Surrounds Wayward Black Hole in Cannibal Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers beli ... more | .. |
  Gamma-ray bursts' highest power side unveiled by Fermi telescope Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. Now, thanks to an orbiting ... more | .. |
  Plasmas Torn Apart January saw the biggest solar storm since 2005, generating some of the most dazzling northern lights in recent memory. The source of that storm-and others like it-was the sun's magnetic field, ... more | .. |
  Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth. ... more |
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 NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for unders ... more | .. |
 Globular star clusters: The survivors of a massacre 13 billion years ago Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the universe i ... more | .. |
  Astrium's Swarm satellite fleet tested and ready for space mission The three Astrium built satellites of the Swarm constellation have completed a series of environmental tests designed to demonstrate their fitness for space flight. The purpose of the Swarm mission ... more | .. |
 US scientists discover new 'waterworld' planet An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water - literally, US scientists say. ... more |
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 Stark warning emerges from science summit A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet. ... more | .. |
 Rock Studies Continue for Opportunity Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more | .. |
 Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
 Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet's surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If marsquakes do indeed take place, said ... more |
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 X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that ther ... more | .. |
 Cell phone hackers can track your physical location without your knowledge Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by comput ... more | .. |
 LightSquared Response to FCC Public Notice For more than a decade, LightSquared and its predecessor companies have worked to bring a private sector solution to a public problem - expanding wireless broadband connectivity to every corner of t ... more | .. |
  In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and f ... more |
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