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O Sol foi fotografado no centro de Nevada durante o eclipse anular de 14 de outubro de 2023.
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Radioamadores Foram Usados Para Obter Informações sobre a Ciência Ionosférica Durante o Eclipse

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Operadores de rádio amadores que estudam a física espacial e a atmosfera superior investigaram a resposta da ionosfera ao eclipse solar anular de 2023 usando transmissões de ondas curtas.

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Fiber-Optic Networks Could Reveal the Moon’s Inner Structure

by Elise Cutts 3 April 202414 May 2024

Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.

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American Samoa’s Sinking Land Speeds Up Sea Level Rise

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 29 March 202429 March 2024

A new interactive tool is helping residents understand how their lands and homes are at risk.

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Out With the Old, in With the Cold

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 28 March 202428 March 2024

A 12-meter telescope at the Arecibo Observatory gets outfitted with a wideband cryogenic system to expand its capabilities.

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Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care

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Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.

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Snapping Science in the Field

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Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app, offers a range of features that make it an unexpectedly useful tool for geoscientists on the go.

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Ionospheric Fireworks Illuminate Auroral Science

by Tima Sergienko, Yoshihiro Yokoyama, Urban Brändström, Masatoshi Yamauchi and Anders Tjulin 28 February 202428 February 2024

A sounding rocket experiment set off a spectacular nighttime light show over Scandinavia as it produced new insights into ionospheric behavior near an aurora.

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The Sound of Science

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Noisy data aren’t always a bad thing.

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Ecosystem Observations from Every Angle

by Zoe Pierrat, Troy Magney, Xi Yang, Anam Khan and Loren Albert 14 December 202314 December 2023

Proximal remote sensing provides a bridge between ecosystem flux data at Earth’s surface and optical data from satellite sensors, improving our grasp of feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and climate.

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Affordable Robots Measure Soil Respiration

by Emily Dieckman 8 December 20238 December 2023

Measuring soil carbon flux, also known as soil respiration, can be expensive or time-consuming. A set of affordable robots that gather these data autonomously could especially benefit the Global South.

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