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A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap
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The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing a network of melt features.

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Pink Penguin Guano Provides Diet Clues
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The color of Adélie penguin droppings reveals what the birds are eating, offering scientists a way to track how sea ice conditions influence their diet.

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Olympic Mountain Glory
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Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.

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US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
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As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from the satellite’s L-band and S-band…

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Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged
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Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city.

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New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights  
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The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.

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Shaping the Emerald City
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The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.

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Fans of the Arctic
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Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.

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Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
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The reports add to the growing documentation on commercial data's contributions to Earth science research and applications.

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Minute Man National Historical Park
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Sites relevant to the start of the American Revolutionary War are interspersed throughout the modern-day Boston metropolitan region.

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