Tag: Earth Science

Credit: NASA Goddard/Owen Kelley Northeastern Texas has borne the brunt of Tropical Depression Imelda's heavy rainfall and NASA estimated that ...

NASA satellite data shows Humberto’s structure change

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Aqua Satellite provided data on Major Hurricane Humberto ...

Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena

Credit: NASA/Goddard/SORCE For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on ...

Earth Commission to identify risks, guardrails, targets for entire planet

First holistic attempt to identify scientific risks, guardrails -- akin to a 2C rise for climate -- to create targets ...

CPS Energy supports clean energy and grid cybersecurity research at UTSA

Credit: UTSA Beginning in the Fall of 2019, faculty members at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will ...

NASA sees heavy rainfall occurring in strengthening Tropical Storm Mario

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL When the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it flew ...

Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Southern Sierra Nevada

Credit: Russell Callahan A University of Wyoming researcher and his team discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the Southern ...

NASA infrared data shows heavy rain potential along gulf from Imelda

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones is using infrared data that provides temperature information. ...

New tool improves beekeepers’ overwintering odds and bottom line

Credit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, September 18, 2019--A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that ...

Geophysicists challenge conventional view of the cause of porosity in weathered rock

Pores, or empty spaces, in rock are critically important for sustaining life on EarthCredit: R. Callahan (Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 18, ...

NOAA helps UT Marine Science Institute rebound from Hurricane Harvey

Credit: University of Texas at Austin PORT ARANSAS, Texas - After more than two years of roof repairs, window installations ...

NASA-NOAA satellite studies tropical storm Kiko’s center

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Hurricane Kiko weakened to a tropical storm, but ...

NASA-NOAA satellite provides forecasters a view of tropical storm Jerry’s structure

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Tropical Storm Jerry is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones to develop in the North ...

NASA’s wide view of major hurricane Humberto’s massive Atlantic ‘tail’