Supernova link to ancient extinction
Iron in the Earth’s crust gives clue to marine extinction two million years ago
Radiation budget is called to account
Earlier this year a group of some 70 scientists spent an intense week in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado reviewing the current understanding of the radiation budget of the atmosphere....
City air pollution becomes clear
The link between water absorption and light scattering in airborne particles is surprisingly complex
Moon illuminates climate study
Dark side of the Moon can reveal changes in our atmosphere
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Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare
The solar wind and the giant planet's magnetic field combine to produce a huge plume
Read article: Jets on Jupiter: first view of an auroral flare
Night-time on Venus
Signals from the dark side of Venus shed light on our neighbour's atmosphere
Clouds gather on Titan
Titan’s atmosphere has much in common with our own: it consists mainly of nitrogen, contains organic material, and exerts a pressure one-and-a half times what we feel on Earth. But Titan receive...
Climate discrepancy solved
Previously is was thought that the result might have been due to some inadequacy in the data for the troposphere. However, Dian Gaffen from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and c...
New light on ball lightning
Ball lightning has only been seen during thunderstorms. The average ball lightning appears as a sphere about 30 cm across and lasts for about 10 seconds. The earliest reports of ball lightning date ba...
Mountain waves seen from space
Eckermann and Preusse analysed data from the cryogenic infrared spectrometer and telescope for the atmosphere (CRISTA), which was flown on the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1994. They discovered that the ...
