MODIS Sees Mahasen
The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Cyclone Mahasen on May 16 at 6:50 UTC (2:50 a.m. EDT) when its clouds extended over India, Bangladesh, and Burma.
TRMM 3-D View of Mahasen
This animation shows a simulated 3-D analysis of NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite's multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA). It shows rainfall that occurred with ...
The fruit fly ovary consists of about 100 egg chambers. Each chamber contains 15 "nurse cells." These surround the oocyte, or egg cell, which ultimately will ...
The winds around our globe are preferentially directed from West to East, or East to West, and much less so in the North-South directions. As a result, ...
Maze Dweller
That sweet little face peering out of a coral labyrinth is that of a a goby fish. A goby fish is dependent on coral for its home, and in turn will often clean algae that would otherwise smother the ...
The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland
The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland is the largest valley glacier in the Alps and it has been losing mass since the mid-19th century. A new study using data from two NASA satellites found that glaciers...
Warren Wiscombe, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
A team of scientists, including Warren Wiscombe from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in ...
New Circadian Clock Component Identified
In Drosophila, circadian behavior is driven by a small group of pacemaker neurons called small ventral Lateral Neurons (sLNvs). Their cell bodies and projections -- here labeled with an ...
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