Ask NASA: Improving hurricane forecasts from space

NASA – yeah, NASA – has a hand in improving hurricane forecasts every year. Not directly, as that is left to the smart meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center, but indirectly through access to new…

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How to spot the Comet NEOWISE (plus some background info on the comet itself)

Get ready for a once-in-an-every-6,000ish-years event. A lot of people have been snapping great pictures of the comet during the past few days. Комета NeoWise в небе моего города. В следующий раз вы можете её…

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Ask NASA: How arctic fires are impacting you (Spoiler Alert: they are)

Your browser does not support the video tag. Wildfires in the Arctic often burn far away from population centers, but their impacts are felt around the globe. From field and laboratory work to airborne campaigns…

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Ask NASA: Using the latest tech to better forecast hurricanes

Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall.…

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Ask NASA: Explaining snowflakes and how we can see them from space

Your browser does not support the video tag. The Global Precipitation Measurement can help improve numerical weather predictions of snowfall by measuring the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a…

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