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What Does Antarctica Look Like Under the Ice?
Although it sits isolated at the "bottom of the world" Antarctica is one of the most influential continents on Earth,…
NASA’s Operation IceBridge Surveys Greenland and Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets
NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun the 2013 research season of Ice Science flights in Greenland and the Arctic to survey…
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NASA: Reaches for New Heights – Greatest Hits Video
http://youtu.be/HsA_BsH0QxM Video Caption: At NASA, we've been a little busy: landing on Mars, developing new human spacecraft, going to the…
Space Station Gets a New Telescope
Astronauts on the International Space Station today are installing a new modified Celestron telescope. This won’t be used to observe…
In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…
Space Junk: Ideas for Cleaning up Earth Orbit
Caption: Artist's impression of debris in low earth orbit Credit: ESA Space may be big -- vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big…
Ecological Concerns in Losing Our Starry Night
[/caption] Images of the Earth at night, taken from space are always a stunning sight, with cities, countries and whole…
Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer
[/caption] Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth's marine…
Chaos and Education at 120,000 feet for Camilla the Rubber Chicken
[/caption] In my travels, I've had the pleasure of regularly meeting up with Camilla the Rubber Chicken, the social media…