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SMOS satellite instrument comes alive - 19 Nov 2009
The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil...
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NASA's QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on... - 18 Nov 2009
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...
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Baffling boxy bulge - 18 Nov 2009
IMAGE: Still an astrophysical mystery, the evolution of the bulges in spiral galaxies led astronomers to the...
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AGU Fall Meeting: Press room update, book hotels by... - 18 Nov 2009
1. Press Room update Upon arrival at Fall Meeting, please go to the News Media registration counter in the main registration area (Moscone...
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'Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites' wins award... - 18 Nov 2009
Everything a meteorite hunter needs to know about finding cosmic treasures The Springer book Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites by O. Richard...
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Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically - 17 Nov 2009
IMAGE: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite passed over Anja on November 15 at 0904 UTC. Anja had...
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Ticking stellar time bomb identified - 17 Nov 2009
IMAGE: Using the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope and its ability to obtain...
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Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of... - 16 Nov 2009
VIDEO: This movie shows actual data from the Very Long Baseline Array, which imaged clumps of gas flowing away...
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NASA's TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's'... - 16 Nov 2009
IMAGE: A rainfall analysis of "Ida the coastal low " from the NASA and JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring...
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NASA's Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja,... - 16 Nov 2009
IMAGE: NASA's MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite captured Cyclone Anja in the southern Indian Ocean on...
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Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure... - 16 Nov 2009
Unprecedented round-the-world observing effort will improve the grid used to mark celestial positions Astronomers will tie together the largest...
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Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally... - 13 Nov 2009
IMAGE: A flooded street on the bay side at the mouth of Onancock Creek, Virginia during the morning of Nov....
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Goddard team develops new carriers for space station - 13 Nov 2009
GREENBELT, Md. -- In a partnership that exemplifies One NASA, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. teamed up with...
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Cyclone Phyan raining on Tibet after breaking a... - 13 Nov 2009
IMAGE: NASA's MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite captured this stunning visual image of Tropical Cyclone...
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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final... - 13 Nov 2009
VIDEO: This is an animation showing Rosetta's journey and the flyby geometry of the third and final Rosetta...
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The astronaut's cookbook - 13 Nov 2009
New book explains what astronauts eat while in outer space and shows how to cook space food Most people are intimately familiar with the...
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Nanotech in space: Rensselaer experiment to weather... - 12 Nov 2009
IMAGE: Space Shuttle Atlantis will next week carry a new Rensselaer nanomaterials experiment to the...
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Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic - 12 Nov 2009
IMAGE: NASA AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) imagery on Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. ET shows the cold clouds...
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New water management tool may help ease effects of... - 12 Nov 2009
Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall and streamflow may look like months in...
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How much water does the ocean have? - 12 Nov 2009
Geodesy researchers observe the mass distribution of the oceans The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by...
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ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery - 12 Nov 2009
VIDEO: This animation shows Rosetta's closest approach to Earth during its second swingby of our planet, Nov....
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2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres... - 12 Nov 2009
Astrophysicists find 2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - only snag is they're stars not planets ...
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Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the... - 12 Nov 2009
IMAGE: This is a photo of the flooding during high tide today, November 12, at the Parkers Creek boat ramp....
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A lightning strike in Africa helps take the pulse of... - 11 Nov 2009
Tel Aviv University discovers an accurate tool for tracking solar rotation Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal...
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A bubbling ball of gas - 11 Nov 2009
This release is available in German. VIDEO: This video shows the surface of the sun in close up. Click here...
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Exoplanets clue to sun's curious chemistry - 11 Nov 2009
IMAGE: Artist’s impression of a baby star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which planets are...
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NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed... - 10 Nov 2009
IMAGE: NASA's Aqua satellite captured cold thunderstorm cloud tops of Cyclone 4A with temperatures as cold as...
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University of Colorado butterfly payload to launch... - 10 Nov 2009
Experiments will involve K-12 students around nation IMAGE: A University of Colorado at Boulder educational...
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Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a... - 10 Nov 2009
IMAGE: This archival image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the location of NGC 5408's unusually...
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GOES satellite sees bulk of Ida's clouds and rain... - 10 Nov 2009
IMAGE: GOES-12 captured Tropical Storm Ida's landfall near Dauphin Island, Ala., this morning, November...
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