Posts by geogadmin

The following article by Robert Sanders, writing for the UC Berkeley News Center, was posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012. According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections — the most intense eruptions on the sun — sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through...

According to ryot.org and many other news agencies, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a new study that claims we only have a few decades left before life as we know it is over. The research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary ‘Human And Nature DYnamical’ (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental...

The following Jet Propulsion Laboratory news article was written by NASA Earth Science News Team member Carol Rasmussen, posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: NASA’s Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth’s ocean, volcanoes, forests, and other features that were made by the first synthetic aperture radar ever mounted on a satellite. Potential research uses for the recently...