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Humisery 2011: No Ordinary View of Air Pollution Jul 28, 2011 08:20:51 PM | Adam Voiland
 
See what a lidar-based air pollution monitoring instrument sees when scientists go hunting for air pollution
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Marylanders: Stop and Smell the Air this July as NASA Planes Buzz Overhead Jul 01, 2011 07:51:42 AM | Adam Voiland
 
Have you ever stopped to wonder why urban air can taste like singed rubber one day and like crisp mountain air the next?
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Flying High with MABEL Dec 16, 2010 04:23:24 PM | Adam Voiland
 
In a poster to be presented Thursday at the 2010 fall AGU meeting, NASA scientists describe a series of high-altitude flights that demonstrated the scientific feasibility of surface elevation measurements to be made by one of the agency's future Earth observing satellites.
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NASA's AVIRIS Instrument Highlighted During AGU Oil Spill Session Dec 14, 2010 05:47:58 PM | Adam Voiland
 
Some 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010, and surprisingly Lady Gaga didn't dominate the list. Instead, it was the summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill that inspired the most activity, according to data released by Twitter this week.
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Speaking of Contrails... Nov 16, 2010 12:19:25 PM | Adam Voiland
 
The prospect of a renegade missile transfixed newscasters last week after a videographer captured imagery of an unusual contrail near the coast of California.
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Piloting Through Hurricane Earl Sep 08, 2010 04:26:29 PM | Adam Voiland
 
NASA DC-8 Pilot Dick Ewers talks about flying into nature's strongest storms for the sake of science.
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How to Work at NASA Without Working for NASA Jul 28, 2010 07:51:04 AM | Patrick Lynch
 
NASA's Earth science mission is open to the best available scientists, no matter who you work for.
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A Tale of Two Kenyas: Contradictions in Air Quality Stirred Researcher’s Pursuit of Atmospheric Science Jul 27, 2010 12:23:46 PM | Adam Voiland
 
NASA's Charles Kironji Gatebe grew up barefoot and poor in the small Kenyan village of Kenda at the foot of Mount Kenya, the son of coffee sharecroppers who raised their family on pennies a day, but later fashioned an award-winning career in atmospheric science studying air pollution in his native country.
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Soaring for Science Apr 05, 2010 08:57:44 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
The newest bird in NASA's flock -- the unmanned Global Hawk -- took off from Dryden Flight Research Center today.
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