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Ultraprecise Clock Will Facilitate Space Exploration

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 21 June 20195 July 2022

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, slated to launch later this month for a demonstration flight, will help spacecraft more efficiently navigate the solar system.

On 3 March 2015, Villarrica volcano near Pucón, Chile, erupted briefly but violently, for the first time in 30 years.
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Monitoring Volcanic Craters with Infrasound “Music”

by J. B. Johnson and L. M. Watson 17 June 20195 October 2021

Volcanic craters act as giant horns that emit intense low-frequency sounds. Changes in this infrasound may be used to track rising lava lakes and identify signals of future eruptions.

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Ordinary Security Cameras Could Keep an Eye on Rainfall

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 10 June 201918 February 2022

A new opportunistic sensing strategy could use existing closed-circuit television networks to accurately capture rainfall intensity, despite low-cost equipment and visually complex scenes.

Heavy rain falls on a pond with lily pads and a yellow lotus.
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Gauging in the Rain

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 30 May 201918 February 2022

Measuring how much water falls from the sky is more complicated than it seems. To improve measurements, researchers are looking at umbrellas, hydrophones, and gamma ray detectors.

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Underground Robots: How Robotics Is Changing the Mining Industry

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 13 May 201928 July 2022

From exploring flooded sites to providing alerts, use of robotics aims to “increase the arsenal of tools that can help miners work more safely and efficiently.”

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X-Ray Computed Tomography Detects Resolution Scale Gold Grains

by A. Revil 2 May 201928 February 2023

A method combining partial-volume and blurring effects can be used to measure small features in computed tomography data volumes.

InSight’s seismometer deployed on Mars
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First Possible Marsquake Detected

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 April 201922 June 2022

First earthquakes, then moonquakes, now marsquakes: a robotic lander comes through with the first detection of seismic activity on Mars.

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A New Way of Visualizing Iceland’s Crustal Deformation

by Terri Cook 24 April 20196 October 2021

A novel method of calculating strain rates from GPS data shows the South Iceland Seismic Zone is experiencing rapid deformation, including inflation near the island’s most active volcano.

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Measuring Explosive Events on Earth from the Ionosphere

by C. Y. Huang, J. F. Helmboldt, J. Park, T. R. Pedersen and R. J. Willeman 12 April 201919 October 2021

Natural and manmade explosive events occurring on or below the Earth’s surface can be measured remotely in different ways and different places from the ionosphere.

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The Accidental Particle Accelerator Orbiting Mars

by Mark Zastrow 3 April 201920 October 2021

The radar aboard the Mars Express spacecraft can generate ion beams arcing through space above the planet, which could lead to a new way of studying the plasma surrounding it.

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