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  NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill

  April 30, 2010 — NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are helping keep tabs on the extent of the recent Gulf oil spill with satellite images from time to ... > full story
• Volcanoes
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  Two NASA Satellites Capture Eyjafjallajokull's Ash Plume

  April 19, 2010 — NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites fly around the world every day capturing images of weather, ice and land changes. Over the last three days these satellites have provided visible and infrared imagery ... > full story
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  GOES-13 Is America's New GOES-EAST Satellite

  April 16, 2010 — The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 became the official GOES-EAST satellite on April 14, 2010. GOES-13 was moved from on-orbit storage and into active duty. It is ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  CryoSat-2: ESA's Ice Mission Delivers First Data

  April 13, 2010 — ESA's CryoSat-2 has delivered its first data just hours after ground controllers switched on the satellite's sophisticated radar instrument for the first time. CryoSat-2 was launched April 8 and has ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Successful Launch for ESA's CryoSat-2 Ice Satellite

  April 8, 2010 — Europe's first mission dedicated to studying the Earth's ice was launched today from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat-2 will send back data leading to new insights into how ice is responding ... > full story
• Climate
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  CryoSat-2 Installed in Launch Silo

  April 1, 2010 — In readiness for launch on April 8, ESA's CryoSat-2 ice satellite has now joined the rest of the Dnepr rocket in the launch silo at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ... > full story
• Satellites
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  Nanosatellite to Clear Dangerous Debris from Space

  March 27, 2010 — New technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit. Scientists have devised a miniature satellite or nanosatellite fitted with a ... > full story
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  NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15

  March 19, 2010 — Twelve days after a flawless launch, NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15. The latest weather satellite will ... > full story
• Weather
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  Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests

  March 11, 2010 — The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here ... > full story
• Sun
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  Shocking Recipe for Making Killer Electrons

  March 11, 2010 — Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's ... > full story

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