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Some scientists believe the snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone in two decades.

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Release Date:
12/16/2002

 NASA Data Indicates El Nino will intensify and move East

El Nino

Release Date:
12/12/2002

 The ozone measurements from the Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) for February 1, 1997 through May 31, 1997

NASA Joins Ozone Study

Release Date:
10/30/2002

 Image of the junction of the Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers in August 1993 (near peak of the flooding).

Crop Loss

Release Date:
10/28/2002
Sea surface temperature, sea surface height, and sea temperature at depth in the Pacific Ocean from July, 1997, through November, 1998, as measured by NOAA AVHRR, TOPEX Poseidon, and the TAO TRITON Array.

El Nino Images

Release Date:
10/16/2002

 NASA Researchers Developing Tools to Help Track and Predict West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus

Release Date:
10/08/2002

Small Antarctic Ozone

Release Date:
09/30/2002

 Black Carbon Contributes to Droughts and Floods in China

Black Carbon

Release Date:
08/26/2002
Aqua/MODIS joins twin instrument for global coverage

Aqua MODIS

Release Date:
08/15/2002

 Phytoplankton in Northern Oceans Have Declined from 1980s Levels

Phytoplankton Decline

Release Date:
08/08/2002

 The Sun delivered a grand slam of its own, blasting four of its most powerful class of solar flares in just eight days.

Solar Grand Slam

Release Date:
07/25/2002

 Landsat Images from its years of Service

Thirty Years of Landsat

Release Date:
07/22/2002
Images created from France's SPOT satellite show the health of vegetation as severely weakened indicating very dry conditions over large areas of the western U.S.

Western US Drought

Release Date:
07/03/2002

 A striking picture of the world's sea surface temperatures

Aqua First Light

Release Date:
06/24/2002

 Rain south east of all major cities in Texas

Urban Rain

Release Date:
06/18/2002

 AR9906 flare

Surprises in Solar Flares

Release Date:
06/05/2002
Close-up view of the outflow region with TRACE.

Coronal Loops

Release Date:
05/15/2002

 New observations from a NASA spacecraft reveal that a layer in the Earth's outer atmosphere acts like a heat shield by absorbing energy from space storms, which reduces their ability to heat the lower atmosphere.

Magnetosphere

Release Date:
05/09/2002

 RHESSI aims to provide the first-ever opportunity to track the radiation released by solar flares in X-ray and gamma rays. This radiation is what reveals critical information about the flare: the exact time and place where the energy is released. This can help to understand what triggers a flare and how it releases energy.

Solar X-Ray Fireworks

Release Date:
03/20/2002

 Future Volcanic Eruptions May Cause Ozone Hole Over Arctic

Volcanic Eruptions and the Ozone

Release Date:
03/04/2002
30 Years of NASA's Remote Sensing Experience Shines at 2002 Olympics

The Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah

Release Date:
02/08/2002

 Great Zoom out from the Louisiana Superdome.

The Superbowl Zoom

Release Date:
02/03/2002

 According to this new study, an

An Alternate Scenario for Climate Change

Release Date:
01/14/2002

 Fires on the Eastern coast of Australia pour smoke over the Tasman Sea

New South Wales Fires Rage On

Release Date:
01/04/2002

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