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From Earth to the edge of space: Entire atmosphere dataset could benefit climate models and space weather prediction
Ranging from September 2004 to December 2023, it spans multiple levels of the atmosphere from ground level up to the lower edge of space, about 110 kilometers above Earth's surface. The region ...
‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
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Invisible electric field discovered surrounding Earth, NASA says it's 'as crucial as gravity'
According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...
NASA Reveals 5 Million Images of Gravity Waves Rippling Through Earth’s Sky
NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...
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Earth's atmosphere is so big the moon flies through it
"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...
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Feel the burn with this amazing video of a Varda space capsule's plunge through Earth's atmosphere
The company has now released a video capturing dramatic images from its final moments in orbit above the planet and the final, fiery plunge back into Earth's atmosphere. — Varda space ...
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Planet Earth, explained
The atmosphere not only nourishes life on Earth ... As a result, scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet COâ‚‚ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
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Astronomers discover exotic atmosphere on scorching hot exoplanet Cuancoá. 'Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire'
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching ... With a mass about 29 times that of Earth, LTT 9779 b lies within the "hot Neptune ...
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How does carbon dioxide increase Earth's temperature?
When energy from the Sun reaches the top of our atmosphere, most of it passes through to Earth's surface, where it is absorbed. Some of this energy is re-emitted, heading back towards space. At this ...