News articles tagged with 'atmosphere'
A mid-level solar flare seen by NASA
— 4 May 2013 18:26 | AstronomyA mid-level solar flare, peaking on 3 May, was seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This flare was classified as an M5.7-class flare. M-class flares are the weakest ones. They…
New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile
— 19 Nov 2011 15:46 | AstronomyMaybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The…
Sugar-grain sized meteorites rocked the climates of early Earth and Mars
— 2 Apr 2011 11:34 | AstronomyBombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according…
Astrophysicist: White dwarfs could be fertile ground for other Earths
— 31 Mar 2011 15:03 | AstronomyPlanet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade, though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable. But it could be that the best place…
Scientists reach beyond the clouds with mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
— 30 Mar 2011 17:01 | EnvironmentEngineering scientists at the University of Southampton have reached above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to develop new technologies that probe the stratosphere using…
Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying
— 28 Mar 2011 18:42 | EnvironmentRecent climate modelling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie…
Cassini spacecraft observes seasonal rains on Titan
— 18 Mar 2011 14:24 | AstronomyAs spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's…
Insights from oil spill air pollution study have applications beyond Gulf
— 11 Mar 2011 16:13 | EnvironmentDuring a special airborne mission to study the air-quality impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill last June, NOAA researchers discovered an important new mechanism by which air…
New study reveals aerosol plumes downwind of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
— 11 Mar 2011 15:52 | EnvironmentScientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science were part of a national research team to find two plumes of oil-based pollutants downwind…
Sink or source? A new model to measure organic carbon in surface waters
— 5 Mar 2011 14:09 | EnvironmentA new carbon model allows scientists to estimate sources and losses of organic carbon in surface waters in the United States. Study results indicate that streams act as both sources…