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NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred sinc...
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AeroMetric Announces New High Accuracy Mapping Solution

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, May 23, 2013 – AeroMetric announced the addition of a new High Accuracy Mapping Solution for its clients. The new solution is designed to obtain tight vertical accuracy and highly detailed imagery...
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NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

PASADENA, Calif. — Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed “weather map” yet for this class of cool, st...
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NASA DEVELOP: Middle East Public Health and Air Quality

Summary: This past spring and summer, NASA DEVELOPstudent interns used NASA’s Earth Observing System to examine spectral characteristics of dust storms in the Middle East. The results of this study aided project partners by ...
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Forest products industry slowly recovers from recession

18 December 2012, Rome - The global forest products industry is slowly recovering from the economic crisis, with the Asia-Pacific region and particularly China taking the lead. New data published by FAO indicate that on avera...
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Geographic information system

Geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geos...
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MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury’s Poles

Mercury’s North Polar Region Acquired By The Arecibo Observatory Full Image and Caption A Mosaic of MESSENGER Images of Mercury’s North Polar Region Full Image and Caption Permanently Shadowed Polar Craters Full Ima...
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NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture

Although the ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space, the three miniature satellites (named Alexander, Graham a...
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Alphabus/Alphasat

ARTES 8 Alphabus/Alphasat is dedicated to the development and deployment of the Alphasat satellite. Alphasat is being built in partnership between ESA and European operator Inmarsat by Astrium. It is the first satellite to us...
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