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February 5, 2000. This image captures the iceberg after it split into two sections (A and B).

Disintegration of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue

Many processes that shape the Earth's landscape happen too slowly to be witnessed in a human lifetime. But recent analysis of satellite imagery shows that a large glacier tongue on the coast of East Antarctica has disintegrated, changing the shape of the coastline almost overnight.
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July 21, 2020
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferogram includes the epicenters of the October 23, 2002, and November 3, 2002 Denali Fault earthquakes, which are located at the extreme western end of the fault rupture.

Denali's Fault

Alaska's Denali Fault experienced a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 2002.
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July 21, 2020
The image above shows an ERS-2 SAR image of coastal water off the Pacific coast of Mexico in 1996.

Data Made Easy

Software development is essential for making SAR datasets user friendly.
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July 21, 2020
The image above shows a brown haze over Boulder, Colorado.

Critical Chemistry

Data on reactive nitrogen species helps map out global distribution and concentration.
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July 21, 2020
The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) are computer-accessible files containing records for a sample of housing units

Crime and Work

Volumes of Census data help demographers and social scientists address research.
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July 21, 2020
The image above shows how researchers selected global eight-kilometer AVHRR Pathfinder data from the Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC to perform their studies on carbon storage and plant growth.

Carbon Conundrum

An increase in global temperatures affects the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
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