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To celebrate the recent data release from Landsat 9, we take a closer look at…
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NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height…
Several dozen small impact craters, 10–70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A…
Innovative mini instruments on the International Space Station have produced their first maps of global…
NASA’s IMPACTS mission studies snowstorms with aircraft to improve weather predictions, focusing on snow particle…
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The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of…
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The report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, finds an elevated…
Adding microwave data to weather models improves storm forecasts by capturing the full vertical column…