Showing posts with label atmospheric science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atmospheric science. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2017

The World's Top 10 Lightning Hotspots Revealed

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The lightning hotspots are shown on this map. In the top ten, the the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) took five places with Kabare...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

NASA Lauches Five Rockets In Sequence

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The red dots over the water show where the five rockets of NASA's ATREX mission will deploy chemical tracers to watch how super-fast win...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Did Carbon Dioxide Just Save The Earth?

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Earth's atmosphere lights up at infrared wavelengths during the solar storms of March 8-10, 2012. A ScienceCast video explains the phys...

Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Absorbed 26 Billion kWh Of Energy

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Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Hit by 26 Billion kWh of Energy -- Sci-Tech Daily As researchers to continue monitor and assess the recent solar ac...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Green Sky At Night, What A Delight! Plasma Eruption On The Sun Causes Spectacular Northern Lights

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Spectacular: The Northern Lights bursting into a spectacular display of purple in Norway From The Daily Mail: In shimmering, rippling waves ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Earth's Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically

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New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-r...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mysterious Light Display Leaves Norwegians And Astronomers Puzzled

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From Popular Science: A Russian missile test or a meteor remain the top guesses for a strange spiraling light phenomenon. A bizarre spiralin...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Islands Make Waves ... In The Sky

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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color (photo-like) image on Novemb...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Pictured: The Independence Day-Shaped Cloud Hovering In The Skies Over Moscow

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Luminous: The pale halo-shaped cloud was hovering over Moscow on Wednesday From The Daily Mail: In what could have been a scene from the fil...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Surprise In Earth's Upper Atmosphere: Mode Of Energy Transfer From The Solar Wind

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In addition to emitting electromagnetic radiation, the sun emits a stream of ionized particles called the solar wind that affects Earth and ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Solar Superstorm

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An ultraviolet-wavelength picture of the sun taken by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Oct. 23, 2003. From NASA: Oc...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm

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Image from Wikipedia From Wired Science: On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operat...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Great Ball Of Fire? No, Just A 'Sun Dog' Scampering Across The Sky

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Blazing light: The flash was photographed by Matthew Pinless near his home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire From The Daily Mail: Matthew Pinle...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Gigantic Lightning Jets Shoot From Clouds To Space

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A series of still images from a captured video sequence of a gigantic jet observed near Duke University. The thunderstorm that produced this...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Red Sky At Night: Heavens Turn Crimson Over Britain After Russian Volcano Erupts

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(Click Image to Enlarge) Shepherd's delight: A particularly fiery red sky over fields in Leicestershire last night after an eruption at ...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Edge of Space Found

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Photo From Near Space Sciences From Live Science: Hold on to your hats, or in this case, your helmets: Scientists have finally pinpointed th...