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Top Stories Archive 7
- NASA Flies to Greenland to Extend Polar Science
- Researchers embark this week on a month-long airborne campaign
to measure ice sheet and glacier thickness.
- Simulation Shows World Without Ozone Layer
- The Montreal Protocol has helped reduce contaminants responsible
for damage to the ozone layer ... but what if the landmark treaty
had never existed?
- NASA Debuts Unique Movie on a Sphere About Frozen Earth
- NASA has created a unique "spherical" movie about
Earth's changing ice and snow cover as captured by NASA spacecraft.
- New Climate-Research Satellite One Step Closer to Orbit
- The Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), an advanced scientific
instrument that will be launched on the Glory satellite, has
successfully completed environmental testing.
- New Observing Technique Turns Gray Skies Blue
- A new detection technique and a new satellite instrument should
help ease the struggle of detecting tiny particles in the air
that may affect global climate.
- Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm
- Researchers have used NASA satellite data to pinpoint the
cause of a 2008 tornado that struck Atlanta. It was the first
twister in the city's recorded history.
- Earth-Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25
- After 25 years of observing the Earth, Landsat 5 is still
going strong -- 22 years beyond its primary mission lifetime.
- OCO Fails to Reach Orbit
- NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory failed to reach orbit after
launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 2008 Was Earth's Coolest Year Since 2000
- The GISS analysis also showed that 2008 is the ninth warmest
year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880.
- NASA and Google Release CO2 Map
- Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from
fossil fuel combustion are now available on the popular Google
Earth platform.