Arctic ice hits its minimum for the year: What's driving the overall decline?In recent years, Arctic sea ice levels have been at their lowest since at least 1850 for the annual mean and in at least 1,000 years for la...
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- NASA to launch satellite tracking Earth's melting ice on Saturday
Washington, Sep 12 (IANS) NASA is set to launch its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2 -- that will track Earth's melti...
12 Sep, 2018, 02.02 PM IST
Nasa set to launch space laser to track Earth's melting ice30 Aug, 2018, 03.04 PM IST
- NASA launching laser satellite to study Earth's changing ice
Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) NASA is launching a laser-armed satellite next month that will measure -- in unprecedented detail -- changes in t...
24 Aug, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
NASA's 2018 to do list includes mission to 'touch' SunNASA Probe is scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore the Sun's outer atmosphere. The probe will use Venus' gravity over nearly 7 years to ...
31 Dec, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
- NASA scientists to survey unexplored stretch of Antarctic ice
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) NASA scientists are set to embark on a 756-kilometre expedition in one of the most barren landscapes on Earth to ...
15 Dec, 2017, 01.52 PM IST
- Heat source under Antarctica melting its ice sheet: NASA
Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) A geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below West Antarctica, explaining some of the melting tha...
08 Nov, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
NASA stopwatch can measure billionth of secondEngineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in the US built the timer for for the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) ...
28 Mar, 2017, 05.54 PM IST
- NASA stopwatch to measure fraction of a billionth of second
Washington, March 28 (IANS) NASA engineers have built a stopwatch that can measure accurately fraction of a billionth of a second.
28 Mar, 2017, 04.40 PM IST
NASA's incredible expedition to explore the Arctic ice sheetsThe sea ice around the North Pole is critical to regulating global temperature, ocean currents, and atmospheric circulation, and it's melti...
22 Jul, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
Nasa to launch satellite in collaboration with IsroNasa-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar mission is a part of its plan to launch in the next 7 years a series of sa...
26 Feb, 2014, 10.06 AM IST
- Polar Ice-sheet melting jumps three-fold: NASA
The combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years says a landmark st...
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