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3/4/2008
For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
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3/3/2008
A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole.
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2/29/2008
Researchers studying cores of sediment collected 40 years ago have found evidence for magnetic field vortices in the Earth's core beneath the South Pole. The results came from materials collected by the U.S. Navy as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
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2/27/2008
NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel.
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2/27/2008
Scientists from over a dozen institutions will embark today to spend 42 days amid the high winds and big waves of the Southern Ocean, to try to explain how large amounts of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.
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2/27/2008
Kenji Yoshikawa will discuss permafrost areas in Alaska most susceptible to degradation and how a school-based monitoring project is helping to understand these changes. Tuesday, March 4th at 10 a.m. (local time).
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2/26/2008
More than 800 international researchers are expected to attend the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, scheduled for June 29-July 3, 2008 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Registration: http://www.nicop.org/registration.html
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2/21/2008
With support from NASA, NSF and NOAA, researchers from Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment (GAs Ex III) are sailed in late February aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown to study carbon-dioxide interactions with the high-velocity winds.
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2/20/2008
The surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling ice loss at the surface and throughout the mass beneath.
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2/20/2008
Scientists with the Sedimentary Connections and Ocean Thoroughfares in the Antarctic (SCOTIA) project are investigating a variety of possible causes for the initial glaciation of the southernmost continent.
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