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5 Surprising NASA Heliophysics Discoveries Not Related to the Sun
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With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the…

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Powerful New US-Indian Satellite Will Track Earth’s Changing Surface
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Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to…

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Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s Magellan Data
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An analysis of data from Magellan’s radar finds two volcanoes erupted in the early 1990s. This adds to the 2023…

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How Do We Know Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Measurements Don’t Include Volcanic Gases?
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In Brief: The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, and all around the…

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NASA Mission Finds Tonga Volcanic Eruption Effects Reached Space
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When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami…

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A Lunar Mystery: The Gruithuisen Domes
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We've got a lunar mystery on our hands! How did the Gruithuisen Domes form? 

Fire and Ice: Why Volcanic Activity Is Not Melting the Polar Ice Sheets
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By Alan Buis,NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Few natural phenomena are as impressive or awesome to behold as glaciers and volcanoes.…

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Study Suggests Rainfall Triggered 2018 Kīlauea Eruption
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In May 2018 Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawaii erupted, touching off months of intense activity. Through August, incandescent…

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New NASA Radar Looks to Monitor Volcanoes and Earthquakes from Space
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Instead of looking up to the sky for bright bursts of fiery color, a research team spent Fourth of July…

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