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  Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, Coronal Mass Ejection

  September 29, 2012 — The sun erupted with a wide, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection on Sept. 27, 2012 at 10:25 p.m. ... > full story
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  Europe's Second Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellite Is Aloft

  September 17, 2012 — The second Metop satellite was launched Sept. 17 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the weather and atmospheric ... > full story
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  MetOp-B Launches With NASA Goddard-Developed Instruments

  September 17, 2012 — A new European meteorological satellite soared into space Sept. 17 with five environmental instruments aboard that were developed by the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) Project at ... > full story
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  Summer Rain More Likely Over Drier Soils, New Satellite Data Show

  September 12, 2012 — Where does it rain on a hot day's afternoon? New satellite data show that soil moisture plays an important role. It influences precipitation in a way which is quite different from what models have ... > full story

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  Starlight and 'Air Glow' Give Scientists a New Way to Observe Nighttime Weather from Space

  September 10, 2012 — Researchers discovered that a combination of starlight and the upper atmosphere's own subtle glow can help satellites see Earth's clouds on moonless ... > full story
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  Quantum Teleportation Goes the Distance: Record-Breaking Distance of 143 Kilometers Through Free Space

  September 5, 2012 — An international research team has achieved quantum teleportation over a record-breaking distance of 143 kilometers through free ... > full story

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  Peek-a-Blue Moon

  September 3, 2012 — Europe's latest weather satellite got a glimpse of the Moon before our celestial neighbour disappeared from view behind Earth on Friday. Since its launch two months ago, MSG-3 has been working well ... > full story
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  Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch

  August 29, 2012 — Seven years after the powerful Category 3 Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation along the Gulf Coast, a Category 1 Hurricane Isaac, with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour (70 ... > full story
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  New 'Microthrusters' Could Propel Small Satellites: As Small as a Penny, These Thrusters Run on Jets of Ion Beams

  August 17, 2012 — A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device bears little resemblance to today’s bulky satellite engines, which are laden with valves, pipes and ... > full story
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  Unusual Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

  July 24, 2012 — For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from ... > full story

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