NASA’s Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications: Integrating Earth Observations

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Image showing 1 hourly precipitation in mm/day for 01:30Z01JUL1979. There are advantages and disadvantages to reanalyses for climate study. The main advantages are that global Earth observations (disparate distributions in space and time) are assimilated leading to uniformly gridded and globally available data. Reanalyses also combine many different types of observations into a single analysis.

Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) To The Moon

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The first attempt to land humans on the moon – Apollo 11 – was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. The landings for NASA’s return to the moon are likely to be even more challenging.