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  New Research Brings Satellite Measurements and Global Climate Models Closer

  May 7, 2012 — One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other ... > full story
• Space Missions
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  Designing the Interplanetary Web

  April 13, 2012 — Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Satellite Observes Rapid Ice Shelf Disintegration in Antarctic

  April 5, 2012 — As ESA’s Envisat satellite continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica’s ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite’s first observations following its ... > full story
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  Getting to the Moon on Drops of Fuel

  March 29, 2012 — The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the lab. The goal of the micro motor: to drastically ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  Solar Storm Seen from Inside and Outside Earth's Magnetosphere

  March 28, 2012 — For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged ... > full story

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  Signs of Thawing Permafrost Revealed from Space

  March 27, 2012 — Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse gases into parts of the Arctic, exacerbating the effects of ... > full story
• Northern Lights
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  Northern Lights: First-Ever Measurement of Auroral Turbulence Using a Nanosatellite Radar Receiver

  March 22, 2012 — Researchers have taken the first-ever measurement of naturally occurring auroral turbulence recorded using a nanosatellite radar ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  'Gravity Is Climate': 10 Years of Climate Research Satellites GRACE

  March 16, 2012 — For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland can now be measured with high accuracy from space. A new sharp image also renders the spatial distribution of the glacial melt more ... > full story
• Space Station
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  Robotic Refueling Mission Begins With Space Station Robotics

  March 7, 2012 — NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  Large Solar Flares Generate Geomagnetic Storm

  March 8, 2012 — A pair of unusually large solar flares early March 7, 2012 generated a Coronal Mass Ejection that was expected to reach Earth around mid-day March 8. It will likely cause at least a strong ... > full story

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