China Dust Disaster Imaged by NASA Spacecraft
March 29 — Dust covered northern China earlier this week during some of the worst dust storms to hit the region in a decade. More

March 20 Is National Sun-Earth Connection Awareness Day
March 19 — The second annual Sun-Earth Day will "Celebrate the Equinox" on March 20 with programs and activities at NASA Centers and a two-hour televised webcast. More

NASA Technology Transfer Project Offers Dramatic Agricultural Benefits
March 18 — A NASA-facilitated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) partnership has resulted in a valuable service that may dramatically improve farming productivity and profitability. More

Red Tide Strands Lobsters
March 18 — A bloom of decaying algae with major ecological ramifications was recently observed by NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument on the Terra satellite. More

Scientists Say 'Grace' as Water-Sensing Satellites Lift Off
March 17 — NASA and the German Center for Air and Space Flight successfully launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or "Grace," mission into Earth orbit at 1:21:27 a.m. Pacific time on March 17, 2002, from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The mission, comprised of identical twin satellites, will precisely measure Earth's shifting water masses and map their effects on Earth's gravity field. More

Recent Shifts in Pacific Winds May Support El Niño Formation
March 15 — Wind data for the Pacific Ocean obtained by NASA's Quick Scatterometer spacecraft -- also know as Quikscat -- are documenting episodes of reversed trade winds that are responsible for unseasonable cyclone conditions in the northwest and southwest Pacific, and which may be a precursor of a future El Niño. More

Digital Photos from Solar Airplane to Improve Coffee Harvest
March 11 — Thanks to recent NASA research, digital pictures taken from a remotely piloted, solar-powered airplane will help growers harvest better coffee and provide support during future natural disasters. More

Grace Space Twins Set to Team Up to Track Earth's Water and Gravity
March 7 — NASA and the German Space Agency are preparing to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a scientific pathfinder mission that will test a novel approach to tracking how water is transported and stored within the Earth's environment. More

NASA Study Links El Nino and Southern Ocean Changes
March 5 — NASA researchers have found strong relationships between El Niño episodes and changes in climate and sea ice cover around Antarctica. More

Future Volcanic Eruptions May Cause Ozone Hole Over Arctic
March 4 — An 'ozone hole' could form over the North Pole after future major volcanic eruptions, according to the cover story by a NASA scientist in tomorrow's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More

NASA Study Offers Hope for Improved Storm Prediction, Understanding
March 1 — Data gleaned from studies of the 2001 hurricane season - with its unpredictable series of nontraditional storms - may hold a key to improved hurricane prediction and understanding, say scientists leading NASA's fourth Convection And Moisture Experiment (CAMEX) study. More

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