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NASA News: May 2009

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  1. NASA Satellite Detects Red Glow to Map Global Ocean Plant Health May 28, 2009

    Researchers have conducted the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants, as revealed by a unique signal detected by a NASA satellite.

  2. Satellite Measurements Help Reveal Ozone Damage to Important Crops May 27, 2009

    The U.S. soybean crop is suffering nearly $2 billion in damage a year due to rising surface ozone concentrations, a NASA-led study has concluded.

  3. NASA Briefing Provides New Global View of Ocean Health May 26, 2009

    NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m. EDT, to present the first-ever global views of the health of marine plant life.

  4. NASA Uses Satellite to Unearth Innovation in Crop Forecasting May 26, 2009

    NASA researchers are using satellite data to estimate soil moisture, improving global forecasts of how well the world's crops will grow during shortages.

  5. NASA Supercomputing Goes Green: Modeling Ocean Climate May 18, 2009

    Earth scientists are reaping huge benefits from research performed on NASA's advanced supercomputers.

  6. NASA Announces Global Climate Change Education Grant Awards May 13, 2009

    NASA has awarded $6.4 million in grants to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit education organizations nationwide to enhance learning through the use of NASA's Earth science resources.

  7. NASA Earth System Science Meeting Celebrates 20 Years of Discovery May 12, 2009

    Twenty years ago NASA embarked on a revolutionary new mission for its Earth science program: to study our home planet from space as an inter-related whole, rather than as individual parts.

  8. Move any Mountain May 12, 2009

    New research is making it easier to accurately track snowmelt -- water from snowpacks that melt in spring -- in mountainous regions.

  9. NASA's QuikScat Sees Santa Barbara 'Quick Dry' May 11, 2009

    Hot weather just before the Santa Barbara, Calif., wildfire quickly dried up soil moisture from rain one day prior, contributing to the fire danger.

  10. South Carolina Wildfire Offers Langley Researchers Close-up Look at Smoke May 8, 2009

    Researchers from NASA Langley's Science Directorate jumped into action recently, studying wildfire smoke with EPA partners.

  11. SABER Offers a New Way to Study Earth’s Ionosphere and the Effect of Geomagnetic Storms May 8, 2009

    Researchers have developed a new way to measure Earth’s aurora and are learning more about geomagnetic disturbances.