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Trying to understand how the atmosphere, its clouds, and the oceans underneath behave without taking into account the fact that the planet is spinning is a futile exercise. In order to help students and laymen alike, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Earth and Space Sciences ... |
1 February 2012
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For years, astronomers and geologists have been debating whether a surface ocean made of liquid water actually existed on the surface of Mars. The latest research on the issue demonstrates that was the case.
The argument has swung back and forth countless time, with each new investigation offering arguments for or a... |
31 January 2012
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States just published a new paper in the top journal Science, describing how changes in sea temperatures can be used as a clear indicator for forecasting wildfires that will hit South America.
The team, led by experts from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) Dep... |
18 January 2012
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The only ecosystem left to explore on our world is also one that could finally allow us to better understand our planet. Inside the igneous ocean crust that lies beneath the sediments of the ocean floor, species of microorganisms live in conditions that have not changed for eons. Needless to say, analyzing these li... |
9 January 2012
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A number of marine surveys conducted earlier this year revealed a total of 15 new species living in the ocean. Some of these creatures are remarkable in and of themselves, whereas others are elusive species, or ones thought to have disappeared long ago.
The surveys were conducted in waters around Scotland, and cove... |
29 December 2011
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Astronomers interested in discovering whether an ocean lies just underneath the crusty surface of Pluto have to wait for about 3 more years. The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet, and it is scheduled to fly past the object in 2015.
This probe is the fastest ever built. Launche... |
22 November 2011
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According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Nature, it would appear that massive volumes of water are trapped under the surface of Europa, one of the most interesting moons around Jupiter.
The data were extracted from a series of observations that NASA spacecraft carried of the ... |
17 November 2011
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Researchers have recently determined that hadal zones in our planet's oceans can be used as proxies for how similar features may look like on alien worlds. Some of these locations may include the Jovian moon Europa or the Saturnine moon Enceladus.
Both these worlds are covered in thick ice, and are suspected o... |
8 November 2011
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In a study published in the October 17 issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Emery School of Medicine and the Harvard University propose a new possible explanation for why bioluminesence develops in the world's oceans. Sailors and others at sea r... |
19 October 2011
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More than 252 million years ago, our planet experienced the most gruesome and complete extinction even in its history. Dubbed the end-Permian extinction, the phenomenon is still pretty much shrouded in mystery, but experts now hope to use the ancient ocean to gleam new insights into what happened.
According to inv... |
11 October 2011
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Given the recent scare that a falling NASA satellite gave a lot of people, it's worthy to mention that the same type of panic will not occur when the International Space Station (ISS) will be deorbited. At this time, the maneuver is expected to be carried out in 2020.
The orbital lab is as large as a football... |
24 September 2011
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that global warming will continue to increase mean temperatures on Earth throughout this century. However, the study also indicates that the effect may stall at times, influenced by the deep ocean and other factors.
Investigators determined that tempera... |
19 September 2011
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The results of a new scientific study refine our knowledge about how Earth's oceans looked like about a billion years ago. The picture the research paints has tremendous implications, since it shows that iron was the prevailing nutrient for prolonged periods of time, rather than oxygen.
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8 September 2011
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While land-based dinosaurs were competing for dominance on the surface of the Earth, an equally-powerful war was being fought in the planet's oceans, where numerous voracious species lived. In time, the mosasaurs became the ultimate predators, and scientists now analyze their rise in careful detail.According to ... |
1 August 2011
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Nearly three quarters of Earth's surface is covered with water and it's very difficult to monitor and control such a vast surface. In recent times, experts began realizing that satellites are the way of the future, and they are now moving forward with creating a surveillance networks. Some of the most commo... |
18 July 2011
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In the near future, harvesting seaweeds called kelp could provide companies with the necessary raw material to create unconventional biofuels. The materials could be collected and processed at a price that would allow for wide-scale applications. Efficiency would be increased even further if the kelp (Laminaria digit... |
4 July 2011
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According to new study results, it would appear that the ocean Saturn's largest moon Enceladus is concealing under a thick layer of ice may be salty. This puts an interesting twist in experts' propositions that the ocean might in fact be inhabitable and inhabited. Enceladus is now considered to be the most ... |
23 June 2011
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Scientists working on the West Coast of the United States have recently set up a new radio antenna system, whose purpose is to investigate the way oceanic currents influence waters in the area. The grid consists of 78 transmitters, each of which is capable of sending a radio pulse in the waters. The new data will hel... |
21 June 2011
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When researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) investigated the role of jellyfish in the oceans, they discovered that the creatures tended to alter marine food webs considerably.The way this was done was by redirecting food energy more towards bacteria than towards higher, more complex lifeforms.... |
8 June 2011
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Scientists at the American space agency have devised a cunning plan to obtain a 3D view of salinity levels in the world's ocean. The idea came from the SAC-D satellite and its Aquarius instrument. The spacecraft, which will launch this week, carries a NASA instrument called Aquarius, which is capable of analyzin... |
8 June 2011
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According to the results of a new investigation, it would appear that baby clownfish are in danger of losing their hearing soon, due to the effects of ocean acidification. This would be disastrous for the species, since it uses hearing to avoid predators. These fish need to avoid coral reefs during the day, since the... |
2 June 2011
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Researchers carrying out their studies on the open ocean now have a new aid at their disposal. Nicknamed ESP, the new instrument is a so-called Lab in a Can, a mobile, barrel-sized laboratory that is fully autonomous, and can conduct a wide array of studies.On the outside, the instrument looks pretty much like a garb... |
23 May 2011
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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
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The crust covering the Jovian moon Io may also be keeping a vast ocean of magma buried just beneath the surface from spilling out. According to the conclusions of the latest study conducted on this object, it would appear that the underground layer of molten rock spreads all over the moon. This may provide an explana... |
13 May 2011
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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
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One of the main directions of development for NASA today is the creation of a mission capable of taking people to near-Earth objects (NEO), the Moon or Mars. But technologies to do so are still under-researched, and this is why experts are recreating the surface of asteroids below the sea surface.
The ocean floor... |
11 May 2011
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be more similar to Enceladus, another moon orbiting the planet, than astronomers first realized. New datasets appear to indicate that the former also has a liquid ocean beneath the surface. If this is confirmed, then Titan will officially become the weirdest moon ever. Some of t... |
19 April 2011
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Earlier today, March 31, the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich, Germany hosted the Fourth International GOCE User Workshop, which was organized by the European Space Agency(ESA). At the meeting, experts were presented with the first geoid model the satellite produced. The Gravity Field and Stea... |
31 March 2011
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A group of astronomers has recently learned that the south pole region of the moon Enceladus is emanating a lot more heat energy than Earth's most active geologic hot spot, the Yellowstone Volcano. This is completely unexpected, especially considering that the average temperatures on the Saturnine moon are aroun... |
8 March 2011
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The seed of a new ocean on Earth has been planted less than 6 years ago, experts say. The body of water will develop along the East African Rift, and is the direct consequence of a massive volcanic eruption that took place in Ethiopia in 2005. In just a matter of days – a blink of an eye in geological terms &nd... |
3 March 2011
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An average person would find it very difficult to focus on a given task if someone was shouting loudly in their ear, or if a colleague at the workplace had a stereo on at full volume. In a new study, it was found that fish have the same problem too, when subjected to unusual noise. They cannot shake off the effects o... |
1 March 2011
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For about four billion years after the Earth first solidified from a ball of molten lava, the world's oceans were oxygen-poor mixtures of various chemicals, boasting levels of acidity that were well beyond those life can thrive in. A new study now shows the challenges early life had to face. Until some 600 milli... |
6 January 2011
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that increasing water acidification is taking its toll on the way nitrogen circulates through the waters. This discovery, which requires further investigations, may lead to the development of more accurate climate models, experts say.The data now seem to indicate t... |
21 December 2010
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Experts at the American space agency announced that their Cassini space probe had just carried out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus, one of the most interesting bodies in our solar system.
The natural satellite is covered by a thick layer of ice, underneath which planetary scientists believe a liquid oc... |
21 December 2010
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More than a decade ago, two major Antarctic ice shelves collapsed into the waters of the Southern Ocean, in an event that marked the seriousness of global warming with a real-life event. Now, experts are beginning to understand how various factors conspired to underlie the collapse. The western parts of Antarctica ar... |
17 December 2010
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One of the most interesting experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is the Norwegian Automatic Identification System (NORAIS), a detector capable of keeping track of ships sailing on the world's oceans for months on end. The system was activated on June 1, 2010.Experts operating the experiment s... |
9 December 2010
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Last year marked the first time an underwater robotic vehicle (glider) crossed the Atlantic Ocean, demonstrating that doing so is possible. Several months after, other gliders were used to quell the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Today, December 9, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural H... |
9 December 2010
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The thing that immediately stands out about Earth when seeing it from orbit is that fact that three quarters of its surface is covered in water. Experts have been trying to determine how such vast accumulations of water developed on a rocky planet, and a new study proposes an interesting explanation.The mystery is ma... |
8 December 2010
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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
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An innovative research has demonstrated for the first time in many years that life can indeed survive nearly 1,400 meters underneath the oceanic crust. This layer of the ground was until now one of the few ares on our planet where only limited numbers of studies were carried out.The microbes uncovered in this unlikel... |
3 December 2010
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A team of researchers in the United States believe that analyzing the natural sounds produced by the ocean could be used as a method of detecting changes in some of its basic traits, such as for example temperature, salinity, current disposition and seafloor topography.The oceans are renowned for their variability, i... |
1 December 2010
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On Thanksgiving weekend, NASA experts will fly down to Brazil to test an instrument that will be launched into space aboard a satellite next year. The mission is a collaboration between Argentina and the United States. The new instrument is called Aquarius, and it will be integrated on the Satelite de Aplicaciones Ci... |
24 November 2010
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Officials at the Lockheed Martin corporation announce that the company has just received a $4.4 million contract from authorities in the United States. The money is meant to further and support the development of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot plant design. The renewable energy facility will be ... |
23 November 2010
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that even the deepest layers of the ocean's crust are teeming with life in a way that researchers did not thought was possible. These areas reveal a large biodiversity of bacteria and other microorganisms, experts say. The creatures living at these depths and und... |
20 November 2010
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Investigators have recently determined that climate change is also exerting its influence on the way tropical cyclones develop, by modifying the mean temperatures of the oceans. This means that the threshold future storms need to reach in order to develop is moving up on the temperature scale. Hurricanes, tropical st... |
11 November 2010
09:32 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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Over the past few years, numerous studies have sought to gain more insight into how microorganisms living in the world's oceans affect the global climate, by regulating Earth's carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles, among others. One of the most peculiar things about these organisms is that they appear to star... |
2 November 2010
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Marine experts and oceanographers believe that a monitoring network to cover all of the world's oceans should have been set into place years ago,and is therefore long overdue. Such a sensor network could be used to keep track of all the changes that take place in the global waters, such as for example how reefs ... |
1 November 2010
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A collaboration of national departments in the United States has agreed to allot more than $5 million in grant money to research dealing with furthering the use of renewable energy in the nation. The money were alloted to investigators conducting studies into offshore and onshore wind power generation, as well as in ... |
27 October 2010
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Earth's ozone layer could be utterly destroyed and depleted if a medium-sized asteroid slams into the deep ocean, rather than hitting a landmass. The new work shows the layer would take decades to be restored, during which time the damage to the planet would be substantial. The largest atmospheric effect would b... |
26 October 2010
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