earth science
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Let’s Take a Break and Check Out Some Chill Satellite Images From This Week Instead
We’ve had a week, haven’t we, friends?
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The Gateway Protecting The Arctic’s Oldest Sea Ice Has Collapsed Months Ahead Of Schedule
Every summer as the Arctic warms up, seasonal highways open on the ocean, allowing sea ice to migrate southward and melt. Now, satellite data is revealing that the gateway to one critical highway – the Nares Strait dividing northwest Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island – has broken up months ahead of schedule. And that could…
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Spacecraft Witness Explosion In Earth’s Magnetic Field
Magnetic fields around the Earth release strong bursts of energy, accelerating particles and feeding the auroras that glow in the polar skies. On July 11, 2017, four NASA spacecrafts were there to watch one of these explosions happen.
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NASA’s New Space Laser Will Track Earth’s Vanishing Ice
On September 15, NASA will launch a laser 499km above the Earth to scan our planet’s ice sheets like never before, recording changes in the elevation of these frozen landscapes down to the width of a pencil.