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NOAA Fisheries Declares Unusual Mortality Event Due to Elevated Strandings of Ice Seals in the Arctic

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Sep 13, 2019   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

NOAA Fisheries Declares Unusual Mortality Event Due to Elevated Strandings of Ice Seals in the Arctic

A dead seal found on a beach near Kotzebue, Alaska. Credit: NPS/Raime Fronstin NOAA is declaring an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for bearded, ringed, and spotted seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas. From June 1, 2018 to present there have been reports of 282 dead seals, with 119 stranded seals in 2018 and 163 in 2019. The increase […]

Hubble Reveals Latest Portrait of Saturn

By Bethany Downer | ESA/Hubble on Sep 13, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

Hubble Reveals Latest Portrait of Saturn

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres (.8 billion) away. Image-NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) Since the Hubble Space Telescope was […]

Rosetta’s Comet Target ‘Releases’ Plentiful Water

By DC Agle \ JPL, Dwayne Brown | NASA, Markus Bauer | ESA on Jul 1, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water into space every second. The observations were made by the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO), aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on June 6, 2014. The detection of water vapor has implications not only for cometary science, but also for mission […]

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