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  NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Wildfire Threats

  December 20, 2006 — NASA data from earth observation satellites is helping build the capability to determine when and where wildfires may occur by providing details on plant conditions, according to a recent ... > full story
• Optics
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  Another World First For Artemis: A Laser Link With An Aircraft

  December 18, 2006 — Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft in early December. These airborne laser links, ... > full story
• Severe Weather
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  NASA Diagnoses Tropical Storm Gert's Growth Spurt

  December 12, 2006 — Scientists present findings from a 2005 field campaign during which they flew over Tropical Storm Gert to look at the storm inside and out to determine how Gert evolved. Presentation (poster ... > full story
• Atmosphere
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  Carbon Dioxide Emissions Predicted To Reduce Density Of Earth's Outermost Atmosphere By 2017

  December 11, 2006 — Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017, according to a team of scientists from the ... > full story
• Weather
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  Microsatellites To Study Earth's Atmosphere From Low Orbit

  December 11, 2006 — A pair of microsatellites developed by Naval Research Laboratory scientists and engineers for the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment Risk Reduction mission launched Saturday, Dec. 9, on NASA's ... > full story
• Ozone Holes
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  European And Japanese Satellites 'Talk' To Each Other

  December 1, 2006 — ESA's Envisat satellite and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) data relay test satellite Kodama have successfully completed an interoperability test demonstrating that scientific data ... > full story
• Sun
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  Ulysses Starts New Journey Around The Sun's Poles

  November 20, 2006 — Sixteen years after its launch on Oct. 6, 1990, the Ulysses spacecraft has begun its third "solar polar orbit" -- a journey around the poles of the sun. The mission, a joint NASA-European Space ... > full story
• Atmosphere
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  Geography
  Environmental Issues
  Earth Science
   

  Sensor To Measure Natural Airglow In The Upper Atmosphere

  November 6, 2006 — The second of five Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager remote sensing instruments, developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, was launched on Nov. 4, 2006 on board the DMSP F-17 satellite. SSULI ... > full story
• Solar Flare
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  First Sunrise On Solar Satellite's Instruments

  October 31, 2006 — The Hinode (formerly Solar-B) satellite, a joint Japan/NASA/PPARC mission launched on 22nd September 2006, has reported its first observations of the Sun with its suite of scientific instruments. The ... > full story
• Satellites
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  Laser Ranging Successfully Tracks Satellite

  October 3, 2006 — Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterization of the satellite's ... > full story

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