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53-Year-Old Soviet Spacecraft Will Plummet Back to Earth This Week
The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in ...
National Snow and Ice Data Center12h
April falls flat
For further information, please see our April Arctic sea ice extent averaged 13.91 million square kilometers (5.37 million ...
Space.com13h
See what it's like to witness Earth's poles from space in this stunning 4-hour SpaceX video
Fram2's orbit flew Dragon on a north-to-south trajectory in low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers ...
New Scientist15h
How Tara Polar Station will push the limits of Arctic research
The Arctic is at the forefront of the climate crisis, with the central basin of the Arctic Ocean warming three times faster ...
Robust method predicts beginning of new climate in Arctic based on warming, wetting and sea ice loss
When does "anomalous weather" become "a new climate"? The moment that variations in a specific climate variable turn into the ...
Mapping carbon in the Arctic
When it comes to climate, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The effects of Arctic warming are a ...
Failed Soviet spacecraft could crash to Earth this week — here's where it might hit (map)
Where will the failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 land when it crashes back to Earth in the coming week? Most major cities ...
Live Science21h
Failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 could crash to Earth this week — here's where it might hit (map)
Where will the failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 land when it crashes back to Earth in the coming week? Most major cities ...