Topic: Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a ...
An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. Called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the new NASA telescope launched on 14 December on a mission to map the entire sky at ...
The article announces that Charles Elachi, director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, won the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement award from Sigma Xi. When Charles Elachi was a boy growing up in a small Lebanese town, he liked to sleep ...
NASA downgrades threat of 885-foot asteroid striking Earth in 2036Earth can breathe a sigh of relief.NASA on Wednesday downgraded the odds of an 885-foot asteroid striking the planet in 2036.Scientists initially believed there was a 1-in-45,000 chance that Apophis could hit the ...
A new research paper published by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows that arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on ...
Earth dodges near-miss _ at least on a cosmic level _ as asteroid zooms pastAn asteroid about the size of one that leveled more than 800 square miles of forest in Siberia a century ago just buzzed the Earth. The asteroid named ...
Ripples in cosmic gas that resemble speedboat wakes have revealed a new population of young, renegade stars barreling through the universe at more than 112,000 miles (180,250 kilometers) an hour.. But study leader Raghvendra Sahai, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...
In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had expected, according to a report Friday in the journal Science.. The glaciers, ...
Astronomers scanning the skies for asteroids that could hit Earth have found one, and it won't be long getting here. local time, according to calculations by celestial dynamicist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.. Despite packing a punch ...
Saturn's poles exhibit an unexpected symmetry in hot, cyclonic polar vortices, despite huge seasonal differences in solar flux. 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. 3 NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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