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California’s Park Fire Spread Fast and Hot
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Published August 31, 2024
An array of satellite sensors observed the long-duration, episodic spread of the state’s historic fire.
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Treasured Maps
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Published August 20, 2024
Elevation data collected during a space shuttle mission in 2000 continues to inform science and society in unexpected ways.
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Mission to Map the Elevation of Earth
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Published August 19, 2024
It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends decades later.
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Climbing Toward the Conclusion of the Tour de France
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Published July 18, 2024
Two of the final stages in the 2024 cycling event traverse high mountain passes in the Western Alps.
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Southern Brazil Submerged
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Published May 31, 2024
This map reveals the depth of floodwater that covered Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024.
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Devastation in Morocco
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Published September 20, 2023
Communities in the High Atlas Mountains were among the hardest hit after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused widespread damage.
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A Boom Year for Sierra Nevada Snow
Published April 19, 2023
Atmospheric rivers delivered a huge amount of snow to the California mountain range.
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Sizing up Mauna Loa’s Lava Flows
Published December 16, 2022
Airborne mapping of the thickness of the lava flows helped scientists calculate that 230 million cubic meters of molten rock poured from the volcano during the two-week eruption.
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