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Launch recap: Doubleheader SpaceX launch day in Florida starts with launch of ESA satellite
Live updates from the launch of the EUMETSAT MTG-S1 weather satellite for ESA. Liftoff occurred at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from ...
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Stunning cloud vortices swirl off 6 different Atlantic islands — Earth from space
A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...
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The polar vortex is coming—and raising the odds for intense winter weather - National Geographic
In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...