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NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission and Terra Satellite Take on Tropical Storm Dolly

The MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite took an image of Tropical Storms Norbert in the Eastern…

Nature's tiny engineers

Conventional wisdom has long held that corals — whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the foundation of coral reefs — are passive organisms that rely entirely…

Antarctic sea-level rising faster than global rate

Researchers at the University of Southampton detected the rapid rise in sea-level by studying satellite scans of a region that spans more than a million square…

Study finds marine protected areas inadequate for protecting fish and ocean ecology

Many vital ecological functions of ocean ecology are performed by fish species that also are food for millions of people. This study uncovers a significant…

NASA Begins Hurricane Mission with Global Hawk Flight to Cristobal

NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission returns to NASA Wallops for the third year to investigate the processes that underlie…

NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Powerful Towering Storms in Cristobal

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite flew above Hurricane Cristobal on August 26 at 11:35 UTC (7:35 a.m. EDT) gathering rainfall data….

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