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Updated: 21 weeks 6 days ago
Forecasting Fire
NASA researchers have created a model that analyzes various weather conditions, including rainfall, to predict the formation and spread of fires.
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Amazon Meanders in Sunglint
The largest river in the world is full of bends and meanders, a result of the water course snaking back and forth across the landscape over time.
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County Fire Lights Up the Night
As smoke streamed toward San Francisco, more than 1,000 fire personnel were at the scene fighting the blaze.
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Here Comes the Saharan Dust
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Heat Lingers from Fuego’s Deadly Pyroclastic Debris Flows
A jumble of hot ash, rock, and soil poured down the slopes of the Guatemalan volcano in early June. Weeks later, satellites continued to detect elevated temperatures in the thick deposits.
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Red Clay Runoff in Lake Superior
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Earth Matters Blog - The Sounds of Satellites
Artists working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory want to envelop you in sounds linked to the orbits of NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites.
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