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Image of the Week Archive — March 2005
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Sprites and Elve from MEIDEX
March 20, 2005 —
Color enhanced images of sprites and an ELVE (an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources) taken during the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX), on board the space shuttle Columbia . . . [continued]
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Correlation in Spectral Solar Irradiance from SORCE
March 13, 2005 —
Spectral solar irradiance (SSI) is the energy emitted by the Sun at various wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet (UV) (< ~400 nm) to visible (between ~400 nm to 700 nm) and near-infrared (IR) (> ~700 nm). This image shows how changes in solar emission at . . . [continued]
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The Nice Weather Surrounding Storms
March 6, 2005 —
Nice weather (or little cloudiness) is usually associated with high pressure, but there are exceptions. Have you ever noticed that after a big rain storm, snow storm, or hurricane passes, or before it arrives, the weather is unusually nice; the sky is of . . . [continued]
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