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Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD

June 13, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Discovered “by accident” by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful — yet invisible — by-product of thunderstorms in Earth’s atmosphere. Like regular lightning, dark lightning is the result of a natural process of charged [...]

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An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds

June 10, 2013

The season for noctilucent “night-shining” clouds is arriving in the northern hemisphere, when wispy, glowing tendrils of high-altitude ice crystals may be seen around the upper latitudes, shining long after the Sun has set. Found about 83 km (51 miles) up, noctilucent clouds (also called polar mesospheric clouds) are the highest cloud formations in the [...]

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10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvelous Mars Express

June 8, 2013

This week marks the 10th anniversary since the launch of the European Space Agencies’ (ESA) Mars Express orbiter from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia on June 2, 2003 and a decade of ground breaking science discoveries at the Red Planet. 2003 was a great year for Mars exploration as it also saw the dual liftoffs [...]

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What Does Antarctica Look Like Under the Ice?

June 7, 2013

Although it sits isolated at the “bottom of the world” Antarctica is one of the most influential continents on Earth, affecting weather, climate, and ocean current patterns over the entire planet. But Antarctica is also one of the most enigmatic landmasses too, incredibly remote, extremely harsh, and covered by a layer of ice over 2 [...]

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Spectacular Night Launch from NASA Wallops Shines Bright Beacon on Star Formation in Early Universe

June 7, 2013

The spectacular night time launch of a powerful Black Brant XII suborbital rocket from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore at 11:05 p.m. June 5 turned darkness into day as the rocket swiftly streaked skyward with the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) on a NASA mission to shine a [...]

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