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Rocketing Into the Northern Lights
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Published February 9, 2013
Researchers probed the auroral wind by shooting instruments into them in February 2013.
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Last House Standing at Royal Gardens
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Published January 26, 2013
Lava from Kilauea Volcano chipped away at the doomed Royal Gardens subdivision for decades. Now more than 75 homes are gone.
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30th Anniversary of the Pu’u ’O’o Eruption on Kilauea
Published January 5, 2013
Overlapping lava flows on Kilauea Volcano illustrate the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Riverbeds in Reverse
Published December 4, 2012
Inverted river channels in central Utah look similar to features on Mars—a clue that liquid water once might have flowed in abundance on the Red Planet.
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Ice-Free Crater Lakes on Ungava Peninsula
Published November 29, 2012
Usually the lake within Pingualuit Crater freezes by mid-September. In 2012, its circular blue surface still appeared to be free of ice in late-November.
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A Block of Thwaites
Published November 10, 2012
Researchers working on Operation Icebridge captured fresh photos and data from the ice on the bottom of the world.
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Kilimanjaro’s Shrinking Ice Fields
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Published November 8, 2012
A recent expedition revealed a new rift in Kilimanjaro’s northern ice field.
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Following the Trail
Published October 26, 2012
Exhaust trails mark the flight of a Soyuz rocket that delivered crew members to the International Space Station.
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Storms Approaching
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Published September 28, 2012
A photographer from Kansas—and a NASA satellite hundreds of miles above—captured images of severe thunderstorms sweeping across Kansas in May.
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When Wildfire Smoke and Thunderstorms Collide
Published July 11, 2012
In June, the High Park fire sent a smoke plume billowing toward thunderstorms in northeastern Colorado. Scientists on NASA’s DC-8 were on hand to witness what happened when the two met.
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