Rock glaciers like Timpanogos in Utah are a jumble of ice and stone. A new method could finally show just how much water these glaciers hold.
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Sharpest-Ever Image of the Sun Shows Small but Mighty Swirls
These tiny instabilities could play an outsized role in energizing the Sun’s corona.
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Roman Telescope Begins Quest to Reveal Evolving Universe
A new era of space exploration began today with the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Chet Udell: A Passion for Instrumentation Creates a New Path
A love for experimental music helped Chet Udell forge a unique career developing new musical and scientific instruments.
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Extended Reality Offers Opportunities for Scientific Show-and-Tell
Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more intuitively, benefiting Earth and space science research and education.
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NASA Rushes to Buoy a Swiftly Sinking Telescope
The Neil Gehrels’ Swift Observatory is plummeting toward Earth, and NASA is spending $30 million to try to stop it.
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The Speedy Particles That Could Help Us Learn More About Uranus
New simulations suggest that a spacecraft-mounted detector of energetic neutral atoms could improve our understanding of the ice giant’s environment, as well as the relationship between the planet, its magnetosphere, and the heliosphere.
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How Einstein’s Lost Theory Could Help Us Find Minerals
New claims challenge inconsistencies in one of the foundational principles of physics. What could this mean for geophysics and Earth science applications?
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New Directions in Mapping Ice Sheet Fabrics and Flow
Polarimetric radar advances enable scientists to measure orientations of crystals, bubbles, and other properties that affect the flow of glaciers and ice sheets—and their contributions to sea level.
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Sensing the Sounds from Earth’s Hazardous Environments
Low-cost infrasound sensors, deployed in large numbers, provide a practical means of data collection near volcanoes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other geophysical phenomena.