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All told, from fires and dust storms, from crashing ocean waves and hurricanes, a trillion trillion bacteria cells are emitted into the air each year—a mass of more than 100,000 tons. Close to the ...

Cloud Composition Clouds are a fascinating part of our sky, made up of countless tiny water droplets or ice crystals. When ...

How's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from ...

That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system ... which is where commercial airplanes fly. Further out is the mesosphere, and after that, the thermosphere, which begins the transition ...

and even mesosphere with molecules as backscattering targets. As coherent Doppler wind lidar (C-DWL) relies on the measurement of the spectrally narrowband aerosol and cloud returns, C-DWL can measure ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

Did we mention Breeze is a corgi? Cuz Breeze is a corgi. Created by Stormy Nights Breeze in the Clouds is crafted by a team of animation-loving, video-game-enamored artists, designers, and ...

Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently large and dense that it has the conditions necessary to create new stars. These same experts ...