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A group of astronomers says that upcoming missions aimed at exploring Titan might also feature instruments or detectors capable of searching for thunders. Finding signs that the atmospheric phenomenon takes place will make it easier for scientists to find lightning. The atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon is... |
3 June 2011
01:38 GMT |
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Methane and ethane are the most basic hydrocarbons, but at the same time chemicals capable of arranging themselves into the most complex structures. Experts believe that, on Titan, these two elements have already set the foundation for the development of life.This proposal takes into account the moon's chemistry... |
18 May 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Astronomers have provided the first confirmation ever that the extrasolar planet Gliese 581d is indeed habitable. This marks the first time that an exoplanet has received this classification. Other similar objects are only hypothesized to be habitable.The object revolves around the red dwarf star Gliese 581, which is... |
17 May 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Leading scientists in a variety of fields gathered in London last week, to attend a one-day symposium organized by the British Geological Society. The participants agreed that human technology is leaving behind tracks on the planet, which will be visible even 10 million years in the future. They say that we are curre... |
16 May 2011
03:51 GMT |
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When the SAC-D satellite will launch into Earth's orbit later this year, experts will finally have the necessary capabilities at their disposal to establish the link between salinity and the planet's climate patterns, ocean circulation and water cycle. Such a discovery would clear up many mysteries related ... |
12 May 2011
05:49 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the thick, hazy atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have been produced by a vast amount of cosmic impacts, that spewed ejecta material into the air.
The thing that puzzles astronomers and planetary scien... |
9 May 2011
02:06 GMT |
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A new series of discoveries is forcing investigators to reconsider established theories about how the world's oceans function. Recently, experts learned that the deep sea, long thought to be a world onto itself, in fact responds to changes that occur in the waters closest to the surface.The data indicate that th... |
29 April 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Planetary scientists now believe that the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have what it takes to allow for the creation of basic molecules that make up DNA. The process may be going on regardless of the fact that there is no liquid water on the moon. For a very long time, experts have bee... |
29 April 2011
04:54 GMT |
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University of Chicago investigators, led by researcher Albert Colman, are currently testing out a variety of theories on how ancient Earth's climate looked like. They are carrying out the study in a peculiar ecosystem, consisting of hot springs in a Siberian volcanic crater. What the team believes is that certai... |
28 April 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Though normally invisible to the human eye, structures called wakes are produced behind wind turbines all the time. Researchers in the United States are now coming together to begin an extensive investigations into the causes and effects of these wakes. The formations are tremendously similar to the wakes boats leave... |
27 April 2011
09:37 GMT |
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The famous hole that exists in the ozone layer above Antarctica is apparently influencing the patterns of tropical rainfall, shifting these atmospheric phenomena ever-southwards. The correlation appears especially true in the southern hemisphere. At this point, massive rainfalls are beginning to affect the eastern pa... |
22 April 2011
04:01 GMT |
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For about 130 years, noctilucent clouds have been investigated by researchers around the world, who were trying to make more sense of these peculiar structures. New data are now starting to change the way we understand the formation of such interesting clouds. They are called noctilucent because they shine in the nig... |
19 April 2011
08:14 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new astronomical study, it would appear that the atmospheric vortex that forms above the South Pole of Venus changes its shape daily, and sometimes even more often. At times, the vortex looks like an 8, or like an S, but it can also take on a range of other shapes as well. A counterp... |
8 April 2011
03:37 GMT |
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From the lowest layers of the atmosphere to the upper stratosphere, the Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft (ASTRA) initiative is promising to bring scientists closer to their areas of interest. The collaboration is seeking to improve upon existing technologies, and also to create new ones. The main areas of... |
31 March 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Millions of years ago, the planet's biosphere underwent a process known as oxygenation, during which oxygen concentrations in its atmosphere and oceans spiked. Experts are now starting to shed light on the mystery surrounding this event. Before oxygenation occurred, the atmosphere had a significantly different c... |
26 March 2011
07:56 GMT |
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The surface of our neighboring planet, Venus, is not exactly the type of place you would call life-friendly. Chances of lifeforms enduring there are close to zero, experts say, and yet somehow not the same can be argued about its atmosphere. According to some, forms of primitive life may still exist in the mixture of... |
22 March 2011
09:10 GMT |
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In recent times, the international scientific community has been trapped in a debate seeking to establish whether the magnetic fields surrounding Earth are indeed responsible for our planet's appearance. One of the reasons why these discussions started is that Mars and Venus are bone dry planets. Though we are l... |
22 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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A group of astronomers announces the discovery of metal elements in the atmosphere of an exoplanet identified only a couple of years ago. This is the first such object to have the chemical composition of its atmosphere modeled, and this is not the first interesting thing experts found. Back in 2009, when experts with... |
17 March 2011
03:57 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts has recently determined that air temperature can have an influence on the average duration of a standard day. The two are connected by Earth's molten core, the investigators explain. If confirmed, the new findings could demonstrate that data about the influence humans ha... |
10 March 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States are about to begin a new airborne science campaign, that will target the so-called “atmospheric rivers” that develop in Earth's atmosphere. These formations have been studied only a little in the past, although they are extremely important for weather patterns around t... |
11 February 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Atmospheric scientists have been trying to solve the riddle of how noctilucent clouds form for many years, but thus far they have been unable to trace back their origins. Now, they move their studies to space as well, keeping track of these peculiar clouds via satellite. Noctilucent (night-shining) clouds can be seen... |
10 February 2011
04:11 GMT |
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The Saturnine moon Titan is undoubtedly one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system, and one of those that closest resemble Earth. Scientist now add a new feature to the list of similarities. Recently, they discovered what appeared to be cirrus clouds in the moon's atmosphere. The finding becomes very... |
4 February 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Given the host of conditions on the Saturnine moon Titan, experts are convinced that the space body is one of the primary candidates for discovering alien life elsewhere other than Earth. There are of course other moons in the solar system that can be classified as potentially habitable, such as for example Enceladus... |
1 February 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Astronomers operating a large telescope in the Southern Hemisphere are delighted to announce that their instrument is about to become even more efficient at observing the night sky. This will happen when it receives a new constellation of sodium laser beams to help point its “eyes.”
The addition of the... |
29 January 2011
02:26 GMT |
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Scientists studying the mystery that are night-shining clouds say that more and more people may soon have a chance of seeing one such atmospheric structure in person. The incidence of events involving noctilucent clouds is on the rise, experts add.
In the past, such instances were extremely rare. They occurred at... |
27 January 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Given the large number of flooding events that have taken place recently, and that are still unfolding in some ares of the world, climatologists are seeking to determine what caused such natural disasters. Their conclusion was that the intensification of La Nina was responsible for the devastation.La Nina is an atmos... |
18 January 2011
04:07 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that the atmosphere's ability to clean itself from pollutants – except carbon dioxide – is being maintained at a steady level, and not dropping, as some studies seemed to suggest. The conclusion was derived from a research that was l... |
7 January 2011
07:33 GMT |
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A new study says that over the past century, the amount of dust covering our planet has doubled, and this extreme increase is leaving its mark on the climate and ecology worldwide.Natalie Mahowald, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, and leader of the study, used all available... |
6 January 2011
09:33 GMT |
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A team of astronomers was recently able to conduct a groundbreaking analysis on the atmosphere of a particular exoplanet, which they managed to image in several wavelengths, using various filters.This is unfortunately rather uncommon for exoplanetary research, given the vast distances that exist between Earth and any... |
5 January 2011
03:33 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that analyzing how ordinary drinking glass shatters may hold clues to how climate change will evolve here on Earth. The new investigation was led by experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).What the team found was that microscopic part... |
28 December 2010
03:40 GMT |
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With more and more cars crowding the streets and exhaust gases being released into the atmosphere, it was time for a brilliant idea on what to do with waste heat, so an international collaboration between scientists at government and university laboratories, came up with a new way of generating electricity from exhau... |
27 December 2010
04:04 GMT |
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Our planet's atmosphere is a delicate mix of various chemical compounds, that cycle through the Earth continuously. Understanding how these cycles work is essential to making sense of how the planet works as a whole, and Earth-sensing satellites of the European Space Agency are making this easier. Recently, inve... |
20 December 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Today's the big day, or should I say tonight's the night when sky watchers should be able to see the total lunar eclipse you might have already heard of.If you're interested in watching this very rare event you will have the chance of admiring it tonight, but you should also know what to look for.This ... |
20 December 2010
04:01 GMT |
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After an extensive, 10-year-old review of data from NASA and other sources, a researchers was able to determine that clouds play an important role in global warming, in the sense that they amplify temperature rise generated by the release of carbon dioxide into the planet's atmosphere. The finding brings a new a... |
17 December 2010
08:18 GMT |
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) argue that the hardest stage in determining whether astronomers indeed found a twin Earth exoplanet would be confirming that the place is indeed habitable. There are many factors that need to be considered when making such a decision.The discovery of the exop... |
16 December 2010
06:30 GMT |
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According to experts, we may soon become able to detect the presence of things such as forests on other planets outside our solar system. All that is needed for this to happen is for the next generation of astronomical observatories to be installed. This may take as little as a couple of decades. When these advanced ... |
11 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Astronomers analyzing the atmosphere of WASP-12b have determined that the exoplanet is home to vast amount of carbon dioxide, even if it's surface is scorching hot. This hints at a larger degree of biodiversity among extrasolar planets than initially thought.The alien planet is so hot because it lies very close ... |
9 December 2010
03:47 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the United Kingdom announces that it has been able to measure the carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange rate taking place between air and water in the open ocean, at higher wind speeds than recorded in any other investigation of this type.
The new dataset is very important for climate science an... |
8 December 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Until now, one of the largest mysteries associated with understanding how clouds form was how the atmospheric structures at times appear to form faster than the basic laws of physics allow for. Physicists now believe they may have uncovered the answer.The mechanism through which “usual” clouds form is fai... |
7 December 2010
19:01 GMT |
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On May 21, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its Akatsuki space probe, which is to become the first ever weather satellite around another planet. The spacecraft arrived at Venus, its primary target, on Monday, December 6.According to mission controllers, the event took place at ar... |
7 December 2010
03:04 GMT |
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A group of investigators suggests that what other researchers construed as sings of ancient Martian life in a meteorite that arrived to Earth from the Red Planet may in fact be explained through basic chemistry. This is only the last argument to be brought in a debate raging on for years.In addition, the team says, t... |
2 December 2010
10:57 GMT |
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A group of experts announced yesterday, December 1, that they were able to conduct an analysis of the atmosphere surrounding a Super Earth-class exoplanet for the first time ever. The distant body may be covered in either water vapors or a thick haze, they explained. The Super Earth class is made up of planets that a... |
2 December 2010
02:36 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently determined that the salty chemistry of the Dead Sea is causing interesting effects in the air masses above it. Large amounts of oxidized mercury were discovered to permeate the air, a chemical that is usually encountered in polar regions.Experts conducted the new investigation took ... |
30 November 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Using data collected by the NASA Cassini spacecraft during a March flyby, experts were able to conclude that the Saturnine moon Rhea, the second-largest orbiting the gas giant, is surrounded by a carbon and oxygen-rich atmosphere.The wispy layer could only be identified after the probe swept very close to the body�... |
26 November 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an impressive new image of a star that is currently dying in the constellation Cygnus. Experts estimate that it will turn into a planetary nebula once it draws its final breath.According to the new photographs, it would appear that the star, called I... |
24 November 2010
09:31 GMT |
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The American space agency, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), announce the winners of the Venus Climate Orbiter Participating Scientist Program.The initiative was started by NASA so that it could provide assistance to Japanese colleagues managing the scientific return of the Akatsuki... |
24 November 2010
06:50 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have been arguing that the earliest life forms developed here inside oceans or pools of water, in places where the organisms had millions of years to develop and thrive. A new theory has however been gaining momentum lately, which states that life originated high up in the Earth's atmo... |
11 November 2010
01:32 GMT |
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According to the new State of the Climate report released in the United States yesterday, November 8, last month was the 11th warmest October on record in the nation. Temperature were considerably higher than normal, while precipitation levels went slightly below average. The report, which was released by the US Nati... |
9 November 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that they have decided to prolonged the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission for the fourth time, after an exquisite, nine-year-long run thus far. The satellite's main mission has always been to analyze the boundary between Earth and outer space. I... |
6 November 2010
07:51 GMT |
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The largest volcanic eruptions that took place on our planet most likely caused an important shift to appear in worldwide rain patterns, in the sense that certain areas got drenched more, whereas others were subjected to floods and excessive rain.New data show that the phenomenon is a lot more widespread than origina... |
4 November 2010
06:50 GMT |
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