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Global Lightning Activity
Space-borne sensors extend the record of global lightning detection. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
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Observatory: A Farmer Ant’s Unique Fungal Crop
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Newly discovered ants have domesticated a fungus deadly to other ant species. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NYT > Science
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Smoke from Wildfires in Southern Chile
Smoke from a wildfire in southern Chile was moving over the Atlantic Ocean when the Terra satellite captured this image on March 29, 2015. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Hazards
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Observatory: A Wing That Can Recover From Mid-Air Collisions
By SINDYA N. BHANOO A new robotic wing recovers from mid-air collisions with a simple mechanism: a pin joint that allows it to bend. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NYT > Science
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Observatory: Phytoplankton Is on Decline in Southern Ocean
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Climate change may be a possible cause, researchers reported in Geophysical Research Letters. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NYT > Science
It’s ‘full spin ahead’ for NASA soil moisture mapper
The 20-foot (6-meter) “golden lasso” reflector antenna atop NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory is now ready to wrangle up high-resolution global soil moisture data, following the successful completion of a two-part procedure to spin it up to full speed. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Phys.org – latest science and…
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Lake Chad and a Bodele Dust Plume
Desert meets woodland in Africa, punctuated by an ancient lake. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Looking Down and Up at the Aurora
On Saint Patrick’s Day, the Suomi NPP satellite acquired a view of the aurora from above while citizen scientists were busily collecting shots from below. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Snowmelt Has Been Coming Earlier in Wyoming
Snow is melting an average of 16 days earlier in the Wild River Range, which may require some adjustments in water management. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Dark matter is darker than once thought
This panel of images represents a study of 72 colliding galaxy clusters conducted by a team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The research sets new limits on how dark matter – the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the Universe Read Full Article Here For…