During the nights of 16-17 and 17-18 November, Joe Zender and Detlef Koschny of ESA’s Space Science Department at ESTEC attempted to obtain ‘stereo’ observations of the Leonid meteors with […]
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College Park, MD. . .The National Archives and Records Administration announced today that it will preserve the official Clinton White House web site and a special one-time snapshot of the […]
NASA, international team building instruments to study Sun on Japan’s Solar-B mission
Our Sun is a violent star and is capable of producing explosive flares and hurling clouds of matter toward Earth – activities that in the past have interfered with satellite […]
CSC Wins $144 Million Task Order to Support NASA’s Center for Computational Sciences
Computer Sciences Corporation announced it has won a six and a half-year, task-order contract with a maximum value of $144 million to support NASA’s Center for Computational Sciences at Goddard […]
Individual Stars in Andromeda’s Bulge
P. Jablonka Observatoire de Paris +33 1 45 07 74 19 An individual team, including an astronomer of Observatoire de Paris, has recently observed for the first time individual stars […]
New insight in star formation
Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent molecular cloud. Thanks […]
More El Nino’s and La Nina’s may lead to more global rainfall extremes
Contact: Stephanie Kenitzer, AMS Press Room kenitzer@dc.ametsoc.org 505-245-7828 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center–EOS Project Science Office Researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), studying changes in tropical […]
Martian ice streams, not floods, may have shaped channels
Contact: Harvey Leifert hleifert@agu.org 202-777-7507 American Geophysical Union Some channels visible on the surface of Mars may have been gouged by ice, rather than by catastrophic flooding, as is generally […]
The Eastern U.S. Keeps its Cool While the World Warms
Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. January 15, 2001 (Phone: 301/614-5562) James E. Kloeppel University of Illinois News Bureau, Urbana-Champaign, Il. Phone: (217/244-1073) Release No: 01-3 Much of […]
Antarctic ice shelf collapse triggered by warmer summers
Contact: Ted Scambos teds@icehouse.colorado.edu 303-492-1333 University of Colorado at Boulder Warmer surface temperatures during summers can cause more ice on Antarctica ice shelves to melt into standing water ponds, then […]