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Saturday, Jan 3
Devil in the Details: NASA Satellite Joins The Search For Carbon Sinks and Sources
Artist’s visualization of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) in orbit approximately 483 miles above the Earth’s surface. Source: NASA. Click to enlarge. NASA is preparing for next month’s launch of its Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a 441 kg (970 lb) satellite designed to map geo...
Wednesday, Dec 31
NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases and Global Warming
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth’s tropics—the type associated with severe storms and rainfall—is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth’s tropic...
Tuesday, Oct 7
NASA Awards Future Commercial Aircraft Research Contracts
Those three concepts include a liquid natural gas-fueled aircraft; the use of a distributed, multiple-engine, propulsion system; and a rigorous assessment of an aircraft which would be designed to fly about 10% slower than current aircraft in order to take advantage of several techn...
NASA Study Finds Increasing Arctic Storm Activity Provokes Acceleration of Ice Drift; New CO2 Sinks May Emerge
NASA researcher Sirpa Hakkinen of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, set out to confirm a long-standing theory derived fr...
