The AIRS infrared instrument that flies on NASA’s Aqua satellite has been providing forecasters with the cloud top temperatures in the Southern Indian Ocean’s ninth tropical cyclone, which has officially been renamed Iggy.
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NASA will host a Science Update at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, to discuss new analysis from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft of material from outside our solar system and the interstellar boundary region that surrounds our home in space.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will visit Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, Va., on Jan. 27 to highlight how government can partner with small business to help create the jobs of the future through investment in science and technology.
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Check NASA’s Hurricane on Facebook provides daily looks at storms in the tropics and it’s updated on Weekends during storms
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Check NASA’s Hurricane Twitter feed for a daily behind the scenes look at storms in the tropics.
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Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed an area of strong convection and strong thunderstorms around the center of Tropical Storm Ethel, even as the storm continues to weaken and become extratropical.
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NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the low pressure system called System 97S on Jan. 24 and observed a large area of strong thunderstorms …
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Tropical Cyclone Funso is now a dangerous Category 4 cyclone in the Mozambique Channel, moving southward between Mozambique on the African mainland and the island nation of Madagascar.
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NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects ranging from our sun to giant black holes billions of light-years away.
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Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard SOFIA, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. As participants in the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program, the educators will partner with professional astronomers using SOFIA for scientific observations in 2012 and 2013.
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