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NASA Launches a New Mission to Study the Effects of Climate Change
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite successfully launched and reached on Thursday, February 10th. The mission took off…
2 months ago
Dust Seen Streaming Out of Namibia Into the Atlantic Ocean
Landsat 8 strikes again. Landsat 8 is the United States Geological Survey's most recently launched satellite, and it holds the…
4 years ago
Watch the Incredible Plume of Dust from Africa Cross the Entire Atlantic Ocean
Dust plumes are a natural phenomena, part of Earth's nutrient cycle. They occur when high-velocity winds pick up tiny dry…
4 years ago
New Data Show How Phytoplankton Pumps Carbon Out of the Atmosphere at an Enormous Scale
One of the most fascinating things about planet Earth is the way that life shapes the Earth and the Earth…
4 years ago
A Swirling Oasis of Life
[/caption] A serpentine eddy swirls in the southern Indian Ocean several hundred kilometers off the coast of South Africa in…
12 years ago