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Earth from Space: Brazil's 'river of national unity'
01-07-2008 · European Space Agency (ESA)This Envisat image highlights the Sao Francisco River in eastern Brazil. With a course of some 2914 km, the Sao Francisco (visible on the right) is the fourth largest river in South America and the largest river located wholly within Brazil.
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01-10-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
The National Science Foundation has issued this news release about the discovery of the origin of Earth's so-called black diamonds. This research was performed at beamline U2B at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), where scientists used infrared light to analyze the diamonds' elemental makeup.
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- Earth from Space: Vietnam's 'nine-tailed dragon'
04-13-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
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- Earth from Space: The Mighty Mississippi
02-23-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
The Mississippi River Delta empties sediment into the Gulf of Mexico in this Envisat image acquired on 6 February 2007. The delta's water source comes from the United States' largest river, the Mississippi, which begins its 3 780 km-journey in northern Minnesota, flows south through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana before spilling into the gulf.
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- Earth from Space: The beauty of Brazil
06-01-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
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- AGU Journal Highlights -- June 7, 2007
06-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
In this issue: Climate change imperils Venice Lagoon, Bright lights sketch sprites, Eastern Amazon belches methane, Warm waters flood an Arctic shelf, Human influence may strongly accelerate oceanic planetary waves, Volcanoes mechanically interact, Ancient Mediterranean Sea level variation, Evaluating river discharge from space, Air pollutant scrutinized over Japan, Southern Ocean simulation, Energy descends in North Atlantic, Amazon magnetism illuminates early Earth, From neural networks to sea temperature maps, Megadrought in ancient Colorado River basin.
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- Earth from Space: Mt. Etna – at it again
12-01-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
This Envisat image acquired on 25 November captures smoke spewing from Europe's largest active volcano, Mt. Etna. The 3 350 metre-high volcano resumed eruptions in early September this year and entered its highly active phase on 5 November, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanic Studies.
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- Earth from Space: The Niger delta
02-01-2008 · European Space Agency (ESA)
This Envisat image highlights the lower Niger River system in the West African country of Nigeria, where the Niger River (left) and the Benue River merge.
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- New deep space images of distant strip of sky to be available on Google
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A global project to map a distant strip of the universe is releasing itsdata today to scientists and the public to be used as part of GoogleSky, a new feature of Google Earth. The international team is taking deep images of an area of sky known asthe Extended Groth Strip, an area that covers the width of four fullmoons, close to the end of the Big Dipper's handle.
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- Discovery prepares for landing
11-07-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
After more than two weeks in space, the seven astronauts on board Space Shuttle Discovery are preparing to return to Earth later today. Discovery is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 19:02 CET (18:02 UT).
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The European Columbus laboratory is an important step closer to Earth orbit after being transferred to Space Shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay in preparation for launch to the International Space Station on flight STS-122.
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