Cloud Ice

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  Study Finds Industrial Aerosols May Cause Local Snowfall by Freezing Clouds

  A new study led by the University of Tartu has shown that industrial emissions, particularly aerosol particles, can influence local snowfall by triggering ice formation in supercooled clouds. Using satellite and ground-based radar observations, researchers found that factories, including cement plants and power stations, may cause localised snow pl...

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  Microplastics Could Be Changing Earth’s Climate, Reveals New Study

  A Penn State University study published in Environmental Science & Technology: Air reveals that airborne microplastics may influence the climate by affecting cloud structures and weather patterns. The study found that microplastics act as ice nucleating agents in clouds, potentially altering precipitation. Professor Miriam Freedman highlights the n...

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  At Minus 30 Degrees Celsius, Boiling Water Turns To Ice In Finland Winter

  Finland's record low temperatures this week inspired a tourist on a trip to the Arctic to try a trick that had long intrigued him: throwing boiling water in the air when it's extremely cold outside and seeing it turn into an instant cloud of icy dust

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  ''Ice And Fire'': NASA Shares Fascinating Pic Of 'Cosmic Reef' Taken By Hubble Telescope

  The telescope captured two neighbouring clouds of cosmic dust and gas, the giant red nebula NGC 2014 and a smaller blue nebula nearby called NGC 2020.

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  Source Of Dust Key To Ice Formation In Clouds: Scientists

  Dust particles from river deltas can more potently influence ice formation in clouds than those from deserts, researchers have found.

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  NASA's James Webb Telescope Finds Signs Of "Building Blocks For Life" In Icy Space Clouds

  NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope recently peered inside a molecular cloud located 630 light years away and found ices made of different elements.

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  Verizon Signs Up Microsoft, Nokia to Help Clients Build Private 5G Networks

  Verizon said on Monday it has struck deals with Microsoft and Nokia to improve the telecoms giant's ability to target business customers by offering clients the ability to automate factory floors, lower costs and speed up data traffic through private 5G networks.

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  Google Employees Call for Pledge Not to Work With ICE

  A group of employees called Googlers for Human Rights posted a public petition urging the company not to bid on a cloud computing contract for CBP.

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  NASA's ICESat-2 Earth-Tracking Satellite to Launch on September 15

  NASA is set to launch its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2 - that will track Earth's melting poles and disappearing sea ice - on Saturday.

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  NASA Stopwatch Can Measure Billionth Of Second

  NASA scientists have developed a stopwatch timer that can measure within a fraction of a billionth of a second, an advance that can help record precise height measurements of sea ice, glaciers, forests and the rest of the Earth's surfaces.

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  Nasa Spots an 'Impossible' Cloud on Saturn's Moon Titan, for the Second Time

  "The appearance of this ice cloud goes against everything we know about the way clouds form on Titan," said lead study author Carrie Anderson.

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  Nasa's Cassini Finds Giant Ice Cloud on Titan

  Cassini's camera had already imaged an impressive cloud hovering over Titan's south pole at an altitude of about 300 kilometres.

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  NASA's Cassini Spots Monstrous Ice Cloud on Titan

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a monstrous new cloud of frozen compounds on the Saturn moon Titan's south polar region.

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  Antarctica Gained 112 Billion Tonnes of Ice Between 1992 and 2001, Shows NASA Study

  An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

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  Nasa Finds High-Altitude Methane Ice Cloud on Saturn's Moon Titan

  "The idea that methane clouds could form this high on Titan is completely new. Nobody considered that possible before."