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  NASA's Aqua Satellite Takes Snapshot of Arctic Ocean Sea Ice

  September 14, 2010 — The Arctic Ocean is covered by a dynamic layer of sea ice that grows each winter and shrinks each summer, reaching its yearly minimum size each fall. While the 2010 minimum remains to be seen, NASA's ... > full story
• Geography
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  GOCE Gravity Mission Back in Action

  September 7, 2010 — ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has recovered from a glitch that prevented the satellite from sending its flow of scientific data to the ground. News of the recovery comes earlier than expected, ... > full story
• Weather
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  NASA and NOAA's Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action

  September 1, 2010 — NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has ... > full story
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  New Solar Prediction System Gives Time to Prepare for the Storms Ahead

  September 1, 2010 — A new method of predicting solar storms that could help to avoid widespread power and communications blackouts costing billions of pounds has been launched by researchers in the ... > full story
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  Navigation Satellites Contend With Stormy Sun

  September 1, 2010 — Just as we grow used to satellite navigation in everyday life, media reports argue that a coming surge in solar activity could render satnav devices useless, perhaps even frying satellites ... > full story
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  Students Help NASA Decommission Satellite

  August 31, 2010 — Undergraduate students, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, ... > full story
• Weather
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  Metop-A Completes 20,000th Orbit

  August 27, 2010 — Metop-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, will complete its 20,000th orbit of the Earth on 27 August. It will deliver its data to the EUMETSAT Polar ... > full story
• Astronomy
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  Ten Years Flying in Formation: The Legendary Cluster Quartet

  August 27, 2010 — Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of formation flying for the four satellites of ESA's Cluster quartet, one of the most successful scientific missions ever launched. On 1 September ... > full story
• Weather
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  Measuring Salt Shine to Improve Climate Understanding

  August 16, 2010 — From Aug. 14-25, 2010, scientists from around the world will gather in Southern Turkey to measure the spectral reflectance of a few square kilometers of salt. These measurements will have a major ... > full story
• Wildfires
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  Fires Around Moscow: Satellite Perspective Reveals Startling Images of Massive Smoke Clouds

  August 13, 2010 — Space scientists in the UK have released satellite images of vast plumes of smoke emanating from the peat bog fires which are currently sweeping across central and western ... > full story

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