NanoSail-D Stories
NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
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The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb. It was an elusive weather phenomenon that scientists…
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NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests
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Groundbreaking tests at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are paving the way for new wind tunnel capabilities for designing the aircraft technologies of the future. In a first-of-its-kind test in NASA Langley’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, researchers used unsteady…
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Rains Swamp the Gandak River
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After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.
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