Groundwater beneath northern India’s farms and cities has been disappearing. Hydrologists, like NASA's Matt Rodell, have been hunting for it.
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Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water
08.12.09 - Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade.
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NASA And Jaxa Sign Agreement For Future Earth Science Cooperation
07.30.09 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President Keiji Tachikawa signed an agreement defining the terms of cooperation between the agencies on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.
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NASA Celebrates Chandra X-Ray Observatory's 10th Anniversary
07.23.09
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NASA Student Airborne Research Program Takes Flight
07.23.09 - Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a six-week NASA Airborne Science field experience designed to immerse them in NASA's Earth Science research.
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