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Three panels adapted from the paper that show moonlight imagery, a low cloud test, and a cloud mask.
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When Less is More—The Moon Sheds Light on Clouds at Night

by Jonathan H. Jiang 12 April 20227 February 2024

Shining light into the dark reveals the unseen, but in some cases, it changes our perception of reality. Through moonlight we learn how the environment tricks our ways of finding nocturnal clouds.

Two figures from the paper, showing the orbit path of Ice in the Mesosphere and graph showing the agreement of the daily PMC occurrence rates of the simultaneous observations from Himawari-8/AHI and AIM/Cloud Imaging and Particle Size data..
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New Technique Improves Polar Mesospheric Cloud Data Set

by Astrid Maute 7 April 202213 March 2023

A new two-step Polar Mesospheric Cloud detection technique is applied towards the Himawari-8/Advanced Himawari Imager full-disk images leading to a new high-quality dataset.

Plot showing how the height of melting layer is higher than that of the freezing level in cyclones.
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Melting Layer Characteristics of Cyclones

by Jonathan H. Jiang 22 March 202213 March 2023

Dual‐frequency Precipitation Radar observations reveal the characteristics and microphysical processes of the melting layer in cyclone precipitation over the western North Pacific.

Simulated magnetic field lines in yellow around Neptune’s moon Triton.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Finding Moons’ Hidden Oceans with Induced Magnetic Fields

by Morgan Rehnberg 9 March 20225 May 2022

A principal component analysis of speculative models can more confidently predict the presence of a planetary object’s subsurface ocean than previous techniques.

Clouds near the Azores
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Do Marine Gases Affect Cloud Formation?

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 25 February 202225 February 2022

By using novel aircraft measurements over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, researchers shed light on the relationship between common marine biogenic gases and the microphysical properties of clouds.

A selfie of NASA’s Curiosity rover, in the northwestern part of Gale crater
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科学家倒转时间追踪火星上的甲烷排放

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 24 February 202224 February 2022

火星上甲烷的峰值可能来自盖尔陨石坑内部,NASA的“好奇号”探测器目前正在那里进行探测。

Visualization of a methane plume in Mars’ atmosphere during the northern summer season as retrieved from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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The Mystery of Methane on Mars Thickens

by Germán Martinez, Anni Määttänen and David Baratoux 15 February 20223 January 2023

Two recently published papers zoom in on the mystery source of methane in the Martian atmosphere.

Photograph of Graziella Caprarelli
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Introducing the New Editor in Chief of Earth and Space Science

by Graziella Caprarelli 21 January 202221 October 2022

Find out about the person taking the helm of Earth and Space Science and her vision for the coming years.

A selfie of NASA’s Curiosity rover, in the northwestern part of Gale crater
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Scientists Turn Back Time to Track Methane Emissions on Mars

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 14 January 202224 April 2024

Period spikes of methane on Mars could originate inside Gale crater, where NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently exploring.s

An image of lake-floor sedimentary deposits from Mars’s Gale crater
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Machine Learning Algorithms Help Scientists Explore Mars

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 12 January 202224 April 2024

Researchers applied machine learning algorithms to several distinct chemical compositions of Mars and suggest that these algorithms could be a powerful tool to map the planet’s surface on a large scale.

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