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This maize in Zimbabwe appears to be thriving in its early stages, but its grain yield will depend on proper timing of rains.

Distant Fields of Grain

Remote estimates of crop yields help international aid agencies decide how to act.
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July 21, 2020
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.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
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