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Forecasting landslides from space

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 - by cmedia

The predictions from this model can also continue to monitor and manage the future of climate change-induced geohazards – like landslides and avalanches. Credit: www.physics.org/News #EarthScience; #Environment; #LandSlides; #Space Landslides …

Astronomy / Earth / Science

NASA planes fly into snowstorms to study snowfall

January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 - by cmedia

NASA’s ER-2, a high-altitude jet equipped with a suite of science instruments, takes off. Credit: NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center #NASA; #Snowstorm; #PlanesFly; #Science; #Study Scientists repeatedly check the weather …

Astronomy / Earth / Science

Using time dilation to measure the curvature of space-time

January 15, 2022January 20, 2022 - by cmedia

#SpaceTime; #TimeDilation; # QuantumTechnologies; #AharonovBohmEffect; #Gravity California/cmedia: A team of researchers working at Stanford University has used time dilation in an atomic fountain to measure the curvature of space-time. In …

Astronomy / Climate change / Earth

2021 Tied for 6th Warmest Year in Continued Trend, NASA Analysis Shows

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 - by cmedia

#NASAAnalysis; #Environment; #ClimateChange; #NOAA; #GISS Washington/cmedia: Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and …

Astronomy / Earth

Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope

January 8, 2022January 10, 2022 - by cmedia

#NASA; #Astronomy; Washington/cmedia: The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations. The sunshield – about the …