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NASA: California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons Water to End Epic Drought
2014-12-17 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Californias record-setting three-year-old drought has left the state with a massive water deficit, and communities, agricultural interests and others warring over access to the supply. Now groundbreaking new calculations based on Now groundbreaking new calculations based on NASA satellite data have revealed just how large that deficit is. A team of scis Jet Propulsion Laborator (JPL) crunched data from NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to figure out how much water it would...
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NASA to study how African fires affect climate
2014-12-16 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Climate scientists have received a boost of up to US$150 million from US space agency NASA for a five year campaign to probe how air pollution, manmade fires across Africa and warming oceans may affect our climate. The money will be split equally among five projects under the umbrella of the agency's Earth Venture initiative, which is designed to fill major knowledge gaps in earth sciences. A mixture of plane flights and surface measurements will shed light on processes that NASA's satellite missions...
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NASA airborne campaigns to tackle questions on climate
2014-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: Five new NASA airborne field campaigns will take to the skies next year to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters, and fires in Africa affect our climate. These studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture-class projects. Each project is funded at a total cost of no more than USD 30 million over five years. Steven Wofsy of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will lead the Atmospheric...
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NASA has successfully created the first 3D printed object in space
2014-11-26 20:45:04| Extremetech
NASA takes a giant leap toward more flexible long-term missions with the successful test of a 3D printer on the ISS. Future astronauts may be able to simply print replacement parts on-demand.
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NASA preps launch of four satellites that will finally suss out the origins of Earths mysterious magnetic field
2014-11-26 17:44:10| Extremetech
This coming March NASA will be launching the Magnetospheric Multiscale Nission (MMS), a effort ten years in the making which will hopefully answer some of the many outstanding questions we have about Earth's magnetic field. In particular, the mission will create the first detailed three-dimensional maps of a process known as magnetic reconnection -- the phenomenon we experience most directly as geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and even the aurora.
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