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Two New Satellites Set to Study One of Earth’s Most Critically Changing Regions
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In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns.
SpaceX Falcon 9 Liftoff with TESS
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A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 6:51 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Satellite Monitoring of Grand Paris Express
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The Grand Paris Express is an unprecedented urban development project centred on a major expansion of the existing public transport network for the whole Paris metropolitan area.
Self-Driving Cars for Country Roads
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A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) developed a way for autonomous cars to read and anticipate their local surroundings rather than relying on gigabytes of 3D map data.
Nekton Mission I – Discovering the Rariphotic Zone
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Results from Nekton Mission I – the XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey confirms the discovery of a new zone in the ocean, the Rariphotic Zone (Rare Light Zone) from 130 meters to 300 meters. The Rariphotic Zone is the fourth zone confirmed in the top 3,000 meters of the ocean, each defined by distinct biological communities living at different depths.
Kīlauea Volcano’s Lower East Rift Zone
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This video from May 21, 2018, shows how splashing and spattering lava builds cones around fissure sites in Kīlauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone.
GRACE-FO Launches Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on, or GRACE-FO, a collaboration between NASA and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast on May 22, 2018.
Radar Making Rainfall Forecasts More Accurate
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Researchers from the University of Missouri have developed a system that improves the precision of forecasts by accounting for evaporation in rainfall estimates, particularly for locations 30 miles or more from the nearest National Weather Service radar.
Earth from Space: Mount Makalu
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Sentinel-2 takes us over Mount Makalu in the Himalayas where Swedish explorer, mountaineer and climate campaigner, Carina Ahlqvist, led a climb this year.
Circle of Blue: Where Water Speaks
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In a disruptive era, when risks are becoming realities, Circle of Blue reports from the front lines.
