From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 08:55:25 PST
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Subject: Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 04/1/2003
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (04/1/2003)
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New Features:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/
* Measuring Ozone from Space Shuttle Columbia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/SOLSE
New remote-sensing technology called limb viewing allows observation of the atmosphere from the side rather than straight down, as with current earth observation satellites. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This halo is known as Earth's limb. From that side view, the layers of the atmosphere appear like layers in a cake, allowing instruments like SOLSE-2 to see the lower layers of the stratosphere. This is important because most of the recently observed ozone change, like the ozone hole, occurs in the lower stratosphere. A successful science mission by the Space Shuttle Columbia crew before their tragic loss during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere established limb-viewing as a valid approach to studying Earth's ozone.
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In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/
* Latest Images:
Tierra del Fuego
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13772
Spring Bloom in the North Atlantic
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13771
Lake Michigan Ice
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13770
Ascension Island
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13769
Topography of the Manicouagan Crater, Quebec, Canada
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13768
Windswept Shores of the Aral Sea
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13767
How On Earth Was This Image Made?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13266
* NASA News
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/
- NASA Finds Wide Annual Fluctuations in Arctic Ozone Loss
* Media Alerts
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/
- Early Flash Flood Warning System May Save Lives, Property
- To Control Climate Change, Alternative Energy Technologies Must Be Developed
* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
- In Aftermath of Volcanic Eruption, Photosynthesis Waxes, Carbon Dioxide Wanes
- Earthquake Warnings in Ionosphere?
- Rising Clouds Leave Forests High and Dry
- Geocryology Important Tool in Global Change Science
- Carbon Storage in Northern Forests Linked to Fire
- East Coast Drought Is History
* New Research Highlights
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/
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