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Oldest Arctic Sea Ice is Disappearing
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Published March 1, 2012
Thick ice that used to last through multiple summers has been in steep decline for three decades.
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2011 Greenland Melt Season
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Published December 6, 2011
The 2011 Greenland melt season was up to 30 days longer than the 1979–2010 average. This color-coded map shows where melt season lasted more or less than average.
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City Lights, 2003
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Published November 29, 2008
Observations collected at night shed light on the changing face of our planet.
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Lunar Eclipse from Orbit
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Published March 13, 2008
On February 20, 2008, sky gazers from the central Pacific to Africa saw the full Moon turn a striking red as it passed into Earth’s shadow. From space, the lunar eclipse deepened the darkness of the night. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s (DMSP) F16 satellite captured this view of the eclipse as the satellite flew over the nighttime side of the Earth in a series of overpasses.
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Blackout Leaves American Cities in the Dark
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Published August 17, 2003
A power outage left many major American cities in the dark on August 14, 2003. The blackout was apparent from the perspective of space in this pair of DMSP satellite images.
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