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Your Science Is Your (Openly Shared) Data

by Ankur R. Desai 26 May 20165 May 2022

Your data are no less important than your words.

DONET sensors buried in the seafloor off Japan
Posted inScience Updates

Ocean Floor Networks Capture Low-Frequency Earthquake Event

by M. Nakano, T. Hori, E. Araki, N. Takahashi and S. Kodaira 25 May 20165 December 2022

Last August, stations on a newly deployed permanent ocean floor observation network recorded rarely seen, very low frequency signals from shallow earthquakes.

Airplane in storm clouds
Posted inNews

Storms Cause Infrequent Turbulence for Aircraft, New Study Finds

by E. Deatrick 25 May 201620 January 2023

Scientists using lightning sensors to automate air-turbulence detection have found evidence that storms jostle aircraft much less than previously thought.

Topography and bathymetry around Greenland overlain with ancient slab material projected from 1400 kilometers depth.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Evidence of an Extinct Ocean Basin Detected Beneath Greenland

by Terri Cook 25 May 201611 January 2022

An analysis of a seismic and gravity anomaly discovered in the middle mantle sheds new light on ancient oceans, the mantle's evolution, and ancient magmatism in the Arctic.

Artist's concept of a rover on the Martian surface.
Posted inAGU News

How on Earth to Decide Where on Mars to Land?

Claire Wilson by C. Wilson 25 May 201624 April 2024

The Public Lecture at AGU's 2016 Fall Meeting will feature three experts—including one still in high school—to discuss landing site selection for the Mars 2020 rover.

Artist’s impression of Pluto, with its wispy atmosphere.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Pluto's Interactions with the Solar Wind Are Unique

by L. Bernard 24 May 201616 November 2021

Space physicists say that Pluto's atmosphere interacts with the solar wind in a never-before-seen hybrid way, one that's both comet-like and planet-like.

Micrographs of melted asperities due to flash heating during laboratory earthquakes.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Flash Heating May Lubricate Rubbing Rock Faces in Earthquakes

by David Shultz 24 May 20166 October 2021

A new laboratory study examines the small-scale physics at play as two pieces of granite are smashed together in a scaled-down version of a real earthquake.

Solar flares took place much more frequently 4 billion years ago than today, bombarding Earth with energetic protons and radiation.
Posted inNews

Did Solar Flares Cook Up Life on Earth?

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 23 May 201612 October 2022

Scientists have found that "super" solar flares could have warmed the ancient planet and jump-started life.

Example of old and new instrument types used across the U.S. by the Cooperative Observer Program to record maximum and minimum daily temperatures.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Toward a Reassessment of Daily Temperature Range Trends

by Terri Cook 23 May 201620 March 2023

To reduce the uncertainty associated with this important climate change index, recent studies have developed a new diurnal temperature range data set and compared the results to previous estimates.

Engineers decommissioning an ocean bottom seismometer and differential pressure gauge
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Streamlining Rapid Tsunami Forecasting

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 23 May 20168 December 2022

With enough sensors, traditional forecasting methods could be replaced by models continuously updated with real-time wave data.

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