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NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

By Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo | NASA, Jim Scott | University of Colorado-Boulder, Nancy Neal-Jones / Bill Steigerwald | Goddard Space Fight Center on Nov 5, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today. MAVEN data have enabled researchers to determine […]

Arctic Temperatures now Higher than 44,000 Years Ago

By Jim Scott | University of Colorado-Boulder on Oct 25, 2013 Science/Education

The heat is on, at least in the Arctic. Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.