NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic…
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Solar Storms Could Scramble Whales’ Navigational Sense
When our sun belches out a hot stream of charged particles in Earth’s general direction,…
Dating a Galaxy Crash
The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago.…
Active Asteroid Unveils Fireball Identity
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over…
Nightside Barrier Gently Brakes ‘Bursty’ Plasma Bubbles
A magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows…
No ‘Clouded’ Judgments: Geostationary Satellite an Alternative to Monitor Land Surfaces
Satellite remote sensing has widely been used to monitor and characterize the spatial and temporal…
Boosting Wind Farmers, Global Winds Reverse Decades of Slowing and Pick Up Speed
In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much…
NIST’s Light-Sensing Camera May Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life, Dark Matter
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the…
Human Heart Cells Are Altered by Spaceflight, but Return to (Mostly) Normal on Earth
Heart muscle cells derived from stem cells show remarkable adaptability to their environment during and…
Satellites Are Key to Monitoring Ocean Carbon
Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we…
