Long-Running NASA/CNES Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow “The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the “Great Blue Way” of the world’s ocean […]
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Bolden on Supporting President Obama's Climate Action Plan
Blog Post: Protecting Planet Earth by Charles Bolden, NASA Blog Post “Having looked back at Earth from outer space, I have seen just how fragile our home planet is – […]
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Former NASA Scientists Start Space and Analytics Company
Planet Labs Reveals First Images from Space, SpaceRef Business “Planet Labs, a space and analytics company, announced plans to launch the world’s largest fleet of Earth imaging satellites to image […]
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Massive Midwest Storm as Seen by Suomi NPP
Detailed Satellite Imagery of Severe Storm (Large image and video), NASA “A powerful storm swept across the Midwestern U.S. late on June 12, 2012 and is continuing to move across […]
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NASA Goddard Google+ Hangout Today on Flooding
NASA Flooding Google Plus Hangout, NASA “A soggy 2013 spring, with near record rainfall in some areas, has led to flood warnings in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. With […]
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Arctic Research Program Analyzes Carbon and Climate Change
Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?, NASA JPL The Arctic permafrost contains vast amount off organic carbon stored over millennia. A NASA program, CARVE, is testing a […]
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GOES-13 Back in Service
NOAA Returns a Healthy GOES-13 to Normal Operations as GOES-East, NOAA “NOAA today officially returned the GOES-13 spacecraft to normal operations, after tests showed a micrometeoroid, likely hit the arm […]
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Stormy Atlantic Weather Season Set to Start
NASA Satellite Sees Strong Thunderstorms in Developing Gulf Low, NASA “NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over low pressure System 91L in the Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared imagery that revealed […]
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New Map of Antarctica
NASA’s IceBridge Mission Contributes to New Map of Antarctica (Video), NASA “A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock […]
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GoreSat Lives – Again and Again and Again.
Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly “Obama proposed Wednesday spending nearly $35 million in his 2014 budget to refurbish a satellite, nicknamed GoreSat by critics, that’s been sitting […]