NASA Experts Report Drought Forecast Breakthrough
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Climate experts at NASA believe they have found a way of forecasting droughts and floods months in advance, the New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday.
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A leading panel of experts handed NASA&#39;s leadership a sharp reproof today, concluding that the space shuttle should be used to service the Hubble Space Telescope and can do the job without posing unacceptable risks to shuttle astronauts.
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Astronomers have found what they say is the best evidence yet for water, or at least steam, in the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
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WASHINGTON - What if scientists could forecast Texas floods a full year in advance? Or predict when and how air pollution from Asia or Mexico will settle over Los Angeles or Houston? Or pinpoint the location of the next West Nile virus ...
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After months of crossing a vast Martian crater floor and zigzagging up low-slung hills, NASA&#39;s Spirit rover has spotted its first hint that water once coursed across the now-desert-like region, scientists said Wednesday.
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Combining the assets of NASA and the EPA with NOAA's weather information is at the heart of a new NASA project called IDEA:  Infusing Satellite Data into Environmental Air Quality Applications. IDEA will improve forecasters' ability to track regional pollution and make air quality forecasts.
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NASA issued a more dismal forecast Monday for the planned liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, saying rain and low clouds would be moving in right around launch time.
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Remarkable new images of Earth's highest clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft.
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The discovery of water on Mars was the scientific breakthrough of 2004, according to one of the world&#39;s leading science journals.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The space shuttle Atlantis and its hail-scarred fuel tank escaped the worst of severe weather that socked Central Florida overnight and now faces an even rosier forecast for liftoff on Friday, NASA officials said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Forecasters predicted an 80 percent chance that the weather would allow NASA to launch its first space shuttle mission of the year at 7:38 p.m.
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Engineers worked to fix a leaky hydraulic seal on NASA&#39;s space shuttle Discovery Wednesday as the agency weighs a possible delay for the spacecraft&#39;s planned October launch.
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Geoengineering experts reveal plans to tackle global warming with fields of crops that reflect sun's heat
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By JOHN JOHNSON JR.  NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had found evidence that water still flows over the surface of Mars - sporadic gushers that increase the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor some form of life.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Despite discouraging weather forecasts, NASA ordered technicians to begin fueling shuttle Discovery around noon today and to prepare the crew for tonight's blastoff.
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NASA managers kept close tabs on the weather Thursday as thunderstorms and low clouds threatened to prevent space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts from landing after a trip to the international space station.
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The most dramatic findings so far from NASA&#39;s twin Mars rovers -- telltale evidence for a wet and possibly habitable environment in the arid planet&#39;s past -- passed rigorous scientific scrutiny for publication in a major research journal.