Science news articles about 'satellite record'

... for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since satellite record-keeping began in 1979, according to ... Ice Data Center, or NSIDC. While slightly above the record-low minimum set on Sept. 16, 2007, ...

UK astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift Satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma ray burst - the most violent and luminous explosions occurring in the ...

... tracking Arctic sea ice cover with satellites since 1979, found that the winter of 2008-09 ... six lowest maximum events in the satellite record have all occurred in the past six years, according to CU- ...

Greenland and parts of Antarctica are losing large volumes of ice to the oceans as their glaciers get thinner, a Nasa satellite reveals.

... in response to temperature and sunlight, grew to the size of North America in a one-day maximum in September that was the fifth largest on record, since NOAA satellite records began in 1979.

... examines western Oregon and Washington and parts of the range of the northern spotted owl. The team used a 30-year satellite record to identify trends in the loss of large-diameter trees ...

... of year-round sea ice decreased to its lowest level since satellite records began 30 years ago. IPY expeditions recorded an unprecedented rate of sea-ice drift in the Arctic ...

... square kilometers) greater than the second-lowest extent recorded in September 2008. The 2009 Arctic sea ice ... years old -- the least ever recorded in the satellite record and far below the 1981-2000 ...