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  • Largest flood recorded beneath Antarctica mapped by CryoSat

    ESA’s CryoSat satellite has found a vast crater in Antarctica’s icy surface for which scientists believe was left behind when a lake lying under about 3 km of ice suddenly drained.

    The study, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters,

  • Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser

    Camille Seaman takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple formats. Since 2003, her work has concentrated on the fragile environment of the polar regions. Her current project concerns the beauty of natural environments in

  • IRIS: The science of NASA's newest solar explorer

    In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. IRIS will tease out the rules governing the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere — historically some of the hardest to untangle. Known as

  • LRO's fourth anniversary – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

    Four years ago, NASA made a long promised return visit to a place so legendary in the history of space exploration that it felt like a reunion with a long lost relative. With the liftoff of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA made a bold statement about its

  • Moderate solar flare measuring M2.9 erupted from Region 1777

    A moderate solar flare registered as M2.9, at the peak time, erupted from Region 1777 on June 21, 2013. The event started at 02:30 and peaked at 03:14 UTC. A Type IV Radio Emission was associated with the event. Type IV emissions occur in association with

  • What lies beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

    NASA has released a new product called Bedmap2 with clear picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock below. Up until now, researchers used 10 years old collection of Antarctic data.

    The product was a result of work led by the British