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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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  Researchers Develop Technique to Help Pollution Forecasters See Past Clouds

  July 10, 2012 — Scientists have created a technique to help satellites "see" through the clouds and better estimate the concentration of pollutants, such as ... > full story
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  Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Lessens in Parts of US and Europe, Increases in Middle East and Parts of Asia

  July 9, 2012 — Satellite measurements show that nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere over parts of Europe and the US has fallen over the past decade. More than 15 years of atmospheric observations have revealed ... > full story
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  One Step Closer to Robotic Refueling Demonstrations on Space Station

  July 3, 2012 — NASA completed another successful round of Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools, leaving the RRM module poised ... > full story
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  Milky Way Struck 100 Million Years Ago, Still Rings Like a Bell

  June 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, and as a result of that ... > full story

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