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Greenland Ice May Exaggerate Magnitude of 13,000-Year-Old Deep Freeze
June 25, 2012 — Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the ... > full story -
Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
June 25, 2012 — Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Sees Several Western U.S. Fires Blazing
June 22, 2012 — Fires are raging in the western U.S. and in one overpass from its orbit around Earth, NASA's Aqua satellite picked up smoke and identified hot spots from fires in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New ... > full story -
Over 30 Years of Global Soil Moisture Observations for Climate Applications
June 19, 2012 — Water held in soil plays an important role in the climate system. The dataset released by ESA is the first remote-sensing soil moisture data record spanning the period 1978 to 2010 – a ... > full story -
NOAA Predicts a Near-Normal 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season
June 18, 2012 — Conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this ... > full story -
New Solar Active Region Spitting out Flares
June 14, 2012 — An active region on the sun, numbered AR 1504, rotated into view over the left side of the sun on June 10, 2012. The region fired off two M-class flares and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on June ... > full story -
Two Warmest Winter Months in Midwest, U.S. History May Have Connection
June 14, 2012 — This past March was the second warmest winter month ever recorded in the Midwest, with temperatures 15 degrees above average. The only other winter month that was warmer was December of 1889, during ... > full story -
Aquarius, NASA's Salt-Mapping Instrument, Marks First Birthday
June 14, 2012 — Aquarius, NASA's pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit, launched a year ago (on June 10, 2011) aboard the Argentine Space Agency's Satélite de Aplicaciones ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
June 14, 2012 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... > full story -
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Virtual Sailing Gives Competitors the Edge
June 14, 2012 — Scientists have shown how virtual simulation can be used to accurately predict how a yacht will behave during a ... > full story
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