Space Views Capture Record Nile Flooding
August 31 — Images from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer show the swollen waters of the Nile, which reached their highest levels in more than two decades. More

Dust from Africa Leads to Toxic Algae Blooms in Gulf of Mexico, Study Finds
August 28 — Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae, according to a new study. More

NASA Scans Vineyards from Above to Help Growers
August 28 — NASA researchers are helping growers improve wine quality by using remote-sensing technology to scan vineyards from high above California. More

TRMM Spacecraft Getting a Boost
August 24 — On August 22, NASA completed a set of maneuvers on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft to boost its orbit around Earth. More

NASA Awards Contracts for New Remote Sensing Technology
August 23 — NASA awarded funding for 11 new contracts for technology development of innovative Earth Science remote-sensing instruments under its Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). More

NASA, University of Maryland, Forest Service Join Forces Against Wildfires
August 20 — U.S. firefighters and land managers are using the most modern NASA-satellite data to combat wildfires. NASA's Terra satellite provides a view of fires across all of the conterminous United States, which helps manage fires more effectively, both during and after wildfire events. More

NASA Gives Pole-To-Pole View Of Cloud Heights And Winds
August 20 — Scientists for the first time ever can simultaneously measure the height and motion of clouds over Earth from pole to pole, which may improve weather forecasts More

Unmanned Planes Help Researchers Assess Hurricanes, Storms
August 20 — Four miniature unmanned airplanes leased by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and equipped with sophisticated meteorological instruments are buzzing through storms near Jacksonville, Fla., as faculty and students await a hurricane. (University of Colorado at Boulder release) More

Newest Environmental Satellite Snaps First Image
August 17 — GOES-12, a geostationary weather satellite that takes images of clouds, measures temperature, reads the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, and monitors space weather, sent back a clear, crisp image from its vantage point 22,300 miles in space. More

NASA Langley Participates in 2001 Hurricane Study
August 16 — Langley scientists are taking part in the fourth Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-4) based out of Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., through September. On board specially instrumented aircraft, researchers will fly in and around hurricanes approaching the East Coast and Gulf regions of the United States. More

NASA Scientists Become Hurricane Chasers
August 16 — Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will head into hurricanes this summer, hoping to improve predictions of these deadly storms by using new data-collecting technology. More

NASA Ames Coordinates Huge Hurricane Observation Campaign
August 15 — Learning how to increase the warning time before Atlantic hurricanes make landfall is a goal of some100 U.S. researchers from NASA and other agencies who will a begin a 5-week campaign on Aug. 16. More

NASA Satellite Sensor and Field Experiment Shows Aerosols Cool Surface, Warm Atmosphere
August 13 — New research based upon NASA satellite data and a multi-national field experiment shows that black carbon aerosol pollution produced by humans can impact global climate as well as seasonal cycles of rainfall. More

NASA Study to Brave Storms in Quest for Better Prediction, Understanding of Hurricanes
August 13 — Armed with airplanes, robotic aerial vehicles and a fleet of sophisticated instruments, a team of researchers participating in a NASA study is waiting to meet this year's hurricanes head-on, gathering data vital to improve hurricane modeling and prediction. More

New NASA Field Campaign Sees the Forest for the Satellite
August 2 — Researchers and their instruments have spread throughout Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, in an effort to check the accuracy of land maps generated from NASA satellite data. These maps provide valuable information about the Earth's land surface and different types of ecological communities. More

Solar Storms Destroy Ozone, Study Reconfirms
August 1 — A new study confirms a long-held theory that large solar storms rain electrically charged particles down on Earth's atmosphere and deplete the upper-level ozone for weeks to months thereafter. More

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