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Testing out new equipment is always an interesting endeavor and soon NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
Read MoreThe Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. A rapid retreat started in February, near the end of the Antarctic summer.
Read MoreWater levels on the Zambezi River in southern Africa remained high on April 14, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the swollen river, which had destroyed crops and forced thousands of evacuations in Namibia’s Caprivi region as of April 12, reported the AFP news service.
Read MoreOn the occasion of World Meteorological Day, 23 March, the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, made the following statement:
Read MoreThe NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) launched on February 6, 2009, has completed a comprehensive 45-day on-orbit verification period.
Read MoreOn March 4, 2009, the skies over the northeast Pacific Ocean were streaked with clouds that form around the particles in ship exhaust.
Read MoreNASA and Cisco Inc. now have a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze, and report data on
Read MoreThe latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived Tuesday morning via a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.
Read MoreBoeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA has announced the second of three, next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will undergo final preparations for launch this spring.
Read MoreCrops in Argentina were taking a beating in February 2009 — according to reports from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), a severe drought in southern South America had severely affected corn, cotton, and soybean crops in the country.
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