9 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Cyclone Jasmine's eye has opened wider on NASA satellite imagery, as it moves through the Southern Pacific Ocean.
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9 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Storm 12S built up steam and became a cyclone on Feb. 10, 2012 as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. Residents of east-central Madagascar should prepare for this cyclone to make landfall by Feb. 13 according to forecasters.
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9 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Using high-powered lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and collaborators discovered that molten magnesium silicate undergoes a phase change in the liquid state, abruptly transforming to a more dense liquid with increasing pressure. The research provides insight into planet formation.
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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University of California - San Diego) Three faculty members in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Peter C. Farrell, founder, chairman and CEO of ResMed, and a member of the Council of Advisors of the Dean of the Jacobs School, also was elected to the academy.
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Data from NASA's TRMM satellite was used to create a 3-Dimensional look at Cyclone Jasmine, currently moving through the South Pacific Ocean.
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The twelfth tropical depression formed in the Southern Indian Ocean today and quickly became a tropical storm, dubbed Tropical Storm 12S. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm and captured infrared data that revealed a quickly developing tropical cyclone with powerful thunderstorms around its center of circulation.
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA scientists are using computer models to help unravel the mystery of a record-setting snowfall in the Washington, DC area in early 2010.
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Steven J. Zinkle, a senior materials researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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7 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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Arizona State University) ASU's Night of the Open Door shines a spotlight on more than 165 activities to celebrate the sciences, arts, humanities and engineering on March 3 in Tempe, as part of the Arizona SciTech Festival.
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7 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Jasmine on Feb. 8, 2012 as it was passing between Vanuatu and New Caledonia. NASA imagery showed Jasmine had a 20 nautical mile-wide eye.
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