Science Stories Archive
![A 30-year satellite record of sea ice in the two polar regions reveals that while the Northern Hemisphere Arctic ice has melted, Southern Hemisphere Antarctic ice has actually increased in more recent years.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002738/pole.6200_gal.png)
Polar Sea Ice
Release Date: 11/11/2003
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![Fires rage in Southern California on October 27, 2003. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Hundreds of homes have been lost. Thirteen people have lost their lives.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002842/oct26fire_2560x1920.0120_gal.png)
California Fires
Release Date: 10/27/2003
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![ALL SVS Visualizations with TOMS Ozone Data in one place](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002855/still_hires_24Sept2003_gal.png)
TOMS Ozone (1979 to 2003)
Release Date: 09/24/2003
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![Hurricane Isabel's status on September 17, 2003](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002825/modis_progression_640x480_pre.jpg)
Hurricane Isabel, September 17, 2003
Release Date: 09/17/2003
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![Hurricane Isabel's status on September 15, 2003](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002805/hires_isabel_modis_goes.0120_gal.png)
Hurricane Isabel, September 15, 2003
Release Date: 09/16/2003
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![Hurricane Isabel's status on September 14, 2003](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002803/isabel_hires_pt2_gal.png)
Hurricane Isabel, September 14, 2003
Release Date: 09/15/2003
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![Hurricane Isabel's status on September 11, 2003](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002801/isabelhighres2_gal.png)
Hurricane Isabel, September 11, 2003
Release Date: 09/12/2003
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![Hurricane Isabel's status on September 10, 2003](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002800/a002800/isabel_high_res_gal.png)
Hurricane Isabel, September 10, 2003
Release Date: 09/11/2003
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![NASA satellites are critical for helping forecasters determine if all of the ingredients are coming together to create a hurricane.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/hurricanes_20030910/images/winds.gif)
Hurricane Recipe Improves Forecast
Release Date: 09/10/2003
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![Scientists use space-based tools to help assess the hurricane's impact on Bermuda as well as the East Coast.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/fabian_20030905/images/fabian0905t.jpg)
Fabian's Arrival
Release Date: 09/05/2003
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![Lake Mead reservoir is nestled between Arizona and Nevada and runs up to the Hoover Dam. The reservoir stores Colorado River water and supplies it to farms, homes and business in Southern Nevada, Arizona, southern California and northern Mexico. Snowmelt from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming provides a majority of the water. A joint NASA/United States Geological Survey satellite captured dramatic pictures of the dwindling water supplies in the drought-stricken western United States. The Landsat 7 satellite took these images of Lake Mead in May 2000 and 2003, showing clearly less water this year. According to the Bureau of Reclamation, the Colorado Basin is enduring its fourth year of drought, and computer models project water levels will go down another 15 to 20 feet by next year.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002777/image2_gal.png)
Smaller Lake Mead
Release Date: 09/04/2003
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![The oceans have been absorbing heat since 1951 and will continue to absorb more heat from the atmosphere over the next 50 years.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/ocean_20030903/images/oceantemp_sm.jpg)
Ocean Sponging Up Warmth
Release Date: 09/03/2003
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![The best look yet at how a solar explosion becomes an antimatter factory gave unexpected insights into how the tremendous explosions work.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002750/rhessi0900_gal.png)
Clues to Solar Explosions
Release Date: 09/02/2003
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![This image is of a large dust cloud leaving the West coast of Africa on February 26, 2000](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002100/a002137/west_africa_gal.png)
Dust Deals Drought, Deluge
Release Date: 07/15/2003
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![Three spacecraft - RHESSI, SOHO and TRACE - have worked in collaboration to record for the first time the entire initiation process of a high-speed CME](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002500/a002511/multisun_no0710_gal.png)
Spacecraft Trio Observing the Sun
Release Date: 06/17/2003
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![The 2003 hurricane season started early for the United States](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002751/a002751_640x480_gal.png)
Hurricanes
Release Date: 05/29/2003
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![NASA Discovers a Soggy Secret of El Nino](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/elnino_20030501/images/sst_2d_9806_pret.jpg)
El Nino
Release Date: 05/01/2003
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![In early 2002, a patch of](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002400/a002420/false_01092002_gal.png)
Black Water
Release Date: 04/17/2003
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![During the peak of the solar cycle, portions of the outer layer of our Sun erupt, with a powerful discharge. Scientists were surprised to find material actually heading back towards the Sun. The material moved fast, too: starting at anywhere from about 20 to almost 400 miles each second. The rippling, burrowing appearance of the Earth-sized phenomena prompted the moniker solar 'tadpoles.'](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002718/tadpoles13270_gal.png)
Solar 'Tadpoles'
Release Date: 04/09/2003
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![Saharan Dust Off West Africa crosses the Atlantic Ocean](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002706/dust_2003_march_06_gal.png)
Saharan Dust
Release Date: 03/06/2003
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![Changes in the Earth's Rotation are in the Wind](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a001300/a001306/a001306_gal.png)
The Earth's Rotation
Release Date: 03/04/2003
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![Snow and Cold for Eastern US Linked to North Atlantic Oscillation](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002600/a002693/wind_pathfinder_gal.png)
North Atlantic Oscillation
Release Date: 02/25/2003
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![Satellite images of the Eastern US covered in snow](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002705/Feb13.0420_gal.png)
Snow Covers Eastern US
Release Date: 02/25/2003
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![Ocean Surface Saltiness Influences El Ni�o Forecasts](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/elnino_20030114/images/nino_sst_ssh_windt.jpg)
El Ni�o Forecasts
Release Date: 01/29/2003
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![NASA satellite image of eastern Asia shows a dense blanket of polluted air over central eastern China -- dense enough that the coastline around Shanghai virtually disappears.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080925104834im_/http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002600/a002675/china_shanghai_gal.png)
China Haze
Release Date: 01/10/2003
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