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Satellite Observations Show El Nino Coming - And It Could Be The Worst In Decades
The maps above show the ten-day average of sea surface height centered on May 2, 1997 (left), and M…
Michael Carlowicz, NASA Earth…
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El Nino is heating the ocean around California, but won't deliver the water desperately needed in the state
When it is potent, El Niño can have a significant impact on weather and climate far from the tropic…
NASA Earth Observatory
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NASA is finally returning to Venus with 2 new spacecraft - one to map the 'inferno-like world' and one to plunge to its surface
By orbiting Venus and plunging to its surface, NASA's new missions could reveal how the planet beca…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Oil-eating microbes found in the deepest part of the ocean could help clean up man-made oil spills
The deepest part of the infamous Mariana Trench - a 43-mile-wide crescent canyon that cuts its way …
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists find new evidence for liquid water on Mars
The results, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, provide the first independent line of ev…
PTI
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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon may have a secret ocean, revealing a new category of worlds that could host alien life
One of Saturn's smallest moons wasn't a candidate for alien life. But if Mimas has an ocean, it cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's oceanic moon Europa — a prime candidate for alien life — might glow in the dark, a NASA scientist discovered
Jupiter bombards Europa's surface with radiation. The resulting "mosaic" of glowing ice could hint …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals
Deep in Earth's oceans, seawater mixes with magma that bubbles up through cracks in the ocean floor…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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What's causing these crazy swirls of color in the Yellow Sea?
Water covers 71 percent of Earth's surface, giving rise to the nickname "the Blue Marble" or "the B…
NASA Earth Observatory
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One Chart Shows Where All The World's Plastic Is Going
In the map below you can see the destinations and concentration of our plastic in surface waters. T…
Leslie Baehr
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A 25-year-old's mission to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has yielded a new discovery - and it means the plastic problem is even worse than we thought
Slat's solution is a floating, U-shaped array that captures plastic in its fold like a giant arm. T…
Aria Bendix
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Amazing Footage Of Lava Blobs Dropping Into The Ocean
This lava is flowing from what geologists call a hot spot that is located deep under the ocean surf…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapor on Jupiter's ocean moon Ganymede for the first time
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmospher…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Math professor: Here's why no one has found a trace of missing Flight MH370
Dr. Goong Chen, whose research on this theory was published in the American Mathematical Society's …
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4 Theories On Why The Massive Amount Of Plastic Littering The Ocean Surface Is Disappearing
The ocean is full of zooplankton-eating mesopelagic fish, or fish that live between 200 and 1,000 f…
Leslie Baehr
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4 Theories On Why The Ocean's Floating Plastic Is Disappearing
"These microplastics have an influence on the behavior and the food chain of marine organisms," lea…
Leslie Baehr
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A bizarre property of water is flooding coastal cities like New Orleans
A one-degree global change is significant because it takes a vast amount of heat to warm all the oc…
Dave Mosher
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Why GPS and radar don't work underwater and can't assist in finding the lost Titan submersible
GPS and radar are no help in the search and rescue efforts. Even the sonar being used to locate the…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA slowly drains the oceans in an incredible animation, revealing hidden underwater mountain ranges and ancient land bridges
O'Donoghue works at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and was formerly at NASA. For the video, he to…