July 2007 Top Stories
»» Investigating Life in Extreme Environments report gives hints on life
[Thursday, July 5, 2007] From the deepest seafloor to the highest mountain, from the hottest region to the cold Antarctic plateau, environments labelled as extreme are numerous on Earth and they present a wide variety of features and characteristics.
»» The Earth is smaller than assumed - New measurements show a difference of serveral millimeters
[Thursday, July 5, 2007] The Earth is smaller than assumed - New measurements show a difference of serveral millimeters
»» Oldest DNA ever recovered suggests earth was warmer than previously believed
[Thursday, July 5, 2007] A team of international researchers has collected the oldest ever recovered DNA samples and used them to show that Greenland was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than most people have believed.
»» NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and NEEMO Crew
[Wednesday, July 25, 2007] NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15. They will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of medical objectives for long-duration spaceflight.
»» USGS and NASA Release TerraLook Data Product
[Wednesday, July 25, 2007] The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is pleased to announce the release of the TerraLook data product.
»» New NASA AIRS Data to Aid Weather, Climate Research
[Wednesday, July 25, 2007] A key contributor to the new generation of climate change research tools is the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. Developed under the direction of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
»» Killer electrons in space are now less mysterious
[Thursday, July 26, 2007] A rare, timely conjunction of ground-based instrumentation and a dozen satellites has helped scientists better understand how electrons in space can turn into 'killers'. ESA's Cluster constellation has contributed crucially to the finding.
»» The Earth Institute at Columbia University Researchers plumb mysteries of Antarctic Mountains
[Thursday, July 26, 2007] The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed.
»» Back to the future: Mastodon extends the time limit on DNA sequencing
[Thursday, July 26, 2007] The mastodon becomes only the third extinct taxon for which the complete mitochondrial genome is known, joining the superficially similar looking woolly mammoth, and several species of Moa, the giant flightless Australasian bird.
»» NASA Earth Observatory: What's New - Week of 17 July 2007
[Saturday, July 28, 2007] Weekly update from the NASA Earth Observatory website.
»» Northrop Grumman Completes Restructure of NPOESS Program
[Tuesday, July 31, 2007] Northrop Grumman Corporation, in conjunction with the government's tri-agency NPOESS Integrated Program Office, has completed the restructure of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
