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Earth’s Magnetosphere
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Published April 23, 2011
Earth is a great magnet, and scientists have spent a century exploring its shape and structure. This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or magnetosphere.
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Melting Snow and Ice Warm Northern Hemisphere
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Published February 24, 2011
These image maps show how changes in snow and ice in the Northern Hemisphere have allowed the Earth to soak up more solar energy—and warm up—over the last 30 years.
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Dust in the Wind
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Published December 18, 2010
This series of images, derived from a computer model, shows wind-blown dust from North Africa as it spread over the Atlantic Ocean on July 1, 2009.
Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood
Published October 5, 2010
Made from a model based on satellite data, these animations contrast wind patterns that brought drought to the U.S. Midwest in 1988 with those that brought floods in 1993.
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GEOS-5: A High Resolution Global Atmospheric Model
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Published June 9, 2010
This comparison shows how a forecast from the high resolution Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5, the world’s highest resolution global climate model, stacks up against GOES satellite images showing actual cloud patterns for February 6, 2010.
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Black Soot and the Survival of Tibetan Glaciers
Published December 15, 2009
Model simulations track the movement of black soot pollution over the Tibetan Plateau from August–November 2009. This image shows haze on September 26, 2009.
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