• The Global Precipitation Measurement – Our Wet Wide World

    The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a "Core" satellite

  • Operation IceBridge: Flying low over Southeast Greenland

    A view from cockpit camera installed on NASA’s P-3B airborne laboratory and operated by the National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NSERC) shows southeast Greenland from 500 meters above, recorded during Operation IceBridge’s flyover on April 9,

  • Shallow M 6.0 earthquake hit Honshu, Japan

    Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) registered M 6.0 earthquake near Sumoto at Honshu Island, Japan, on April 12, 2013 at 20:33 UTC (April 13, 2013 at 05:33 local time). The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) NW of Sumoto, Japan and 20 km (12 miles) NNE of Fukura, Japan

  • Tropical Cyclone Imelda has slowed down in Southern Indian Ocean

    An area of low pressure moving toward Cyclone Imelda from the west has turned the storm to the south from its westward track. Since interacting with the approaching area of low pressure from the west and then turning south, Imelda has slowed down. According to latest

  • Tropical Cyclone Victoria almost fully dissipated

    Short-lived Tropical Cyclone Victoria is now tropical low or tropical depression and it has almost fully dissipated under the steadily increasing vertical wind shear associated with an approaching deep-layered trough and its interaction with a subtropical high over

  • The Beginning of the Universe in 3 Minutes

    CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang.Source:

  • Tropical Cyclone Imelda gaining strength in Indian Ocean

    Tropical Cyclone Imelda is spinning in the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean moving in west-southwestern direction. According to latest report by Joint typhoon Warning Center (JTWC, Tropical Cyclone Imelda is located approximately 650 nm north-northeast of La

  • MinutePhysics: The True Science of Parallel Universes

    Imagine if there were multiple universes, where you live a different life, have different friends, work a different job, and tackle different life problems, where you don’t even have access to the internet. These multiple universes are all related to ours and they

  • Tropical Cyclone 21S formed in Indian Ocean

    New tropical disturbance is taking shape in waters of Indian Ocean. According to latest report by Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Tropical Cyclone 21S is located approximately 335 nm south- southwest of Diego Garcia, and is moving south-westward at speed of 11

  • IceBridge: Keeping a close eye on Jakobshavn glacier

    Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the fastest moving glaciers in Greenland, has been the focus of IceBridge survey flights for five consecutive years. Here, images from an IceBridge mission on April 4, 2013 and video footage from the 2012 Arctic campaign show this rapidly