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The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Key to global warming prediction within reach

December 4, 2002

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

November 20, 2002

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew.

Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth

November 14, 2002

Artist's concept of Hydros project

Key to global warming prediction within reach

November 14, 2002

A Venetian grocer wears waders while minding the store.

Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method

November 6, 2002

Hurricane Hugo

MIT team hopes to listen for hurricanes from the sea floor

October 2, 2002

The Apollo Saturn V moon rocket's third stage as photgraphed by the crew of Apollo 8 in December, 1968.

MIT astronomers ID object as Apollo stage

September 19, 2002

Lodovica Illari (right), a lecturer in meteorology, and Rob Korty (left) and Greg Lawson, graduate students in earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, are members of the MIT team that won a national weather forecasting competition.

Forecasting team weathers contest with a victory

September 11, 2002

A northern hemisphere tropopause map for Aug. 30 shows regions of low and high tropopause--the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere, which is on average about 10-12 kilometers high but which undulates as synoptic weather systems develop and decay. Purple/blue colors mark regions where the tropopause is low, while red/orange indicates the tropopause is high. Regions of anomalously ...

Forecasting team weathers contest with a win

September 4, 2002

David Senn with the filtration unit he and Professor Harry Hemond built to take water samples from the depths of the Upper Mystic Lake.

Team probes arsenic and old lakes

August 29, 2002

Analysis of GPS navigation signals monitored at over 120 sites provides a snapshot of ionoshperic total electron content (TEC) over North America during a major geomagnetic disturbance. A large-scale plume of storm enhanced density spans the continent from a source region in the eastern U.S. The bold red outlines the low-altitude footprint of the TEC plume.

Earth-based tools used to see weather in space

May 8, 2002

Effectiveness of Kyoto Protocol on climate in absence of US ratification discussed

February 27, 2002

Freshman subject in EAPS presents problems with no easy answers

December 19, 2001

The atmospheric science department at Haystack Observatory just moved into a newly built wing, after having "temporary" quarters in trailers for the last 30 years. John C. Foster, associate director of the department, shows his office.

Haystack dedicates new office wing

October 31, 2001

Visiting Professor Salvatore Grimaldi measures erosion in Ft. Carson Gully in Colorado as a member of Professor Rafael Bras's team effort to study the effects of vegetation on landscape erosion.

New landscape erosion model includes effects of vegetation

June 6, 2001