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The endeavour to combat global warming by mapping the earth

Washington: A new image from Nasa

If the countdown proceeds smoothly, and if Nasa

Vandenberg Air Force Base: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch on Tuesday, ending a USD 280 million mission to track global warming from space.

Nasa Spacecraft To Search For Life Outside The Solar System

Washington: Nasa is preparing to launch next month the Kepler spacecraft with a new space telescope that for the first time will be capable of detecting Earth-like planets outside our solar system, project managers said.

conservation Fishing casualties Fishing has dwindled the numbers of the pantropical spotted dolphin, a Pacific Ocean inhabitant, at a worrying rate. Initially the cause was traced to

This is one of the many questions that a group of 70 scientists

Sailors, fishermen and cruise passengers should be on the alert. If anybody spots a yellow rubber duck bobbing on the ocean waves, NASA would like to know.

LOS ANGELES

WASHINGTON: More than two trillion tonnes of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.