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The aviation industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has soared since its inception, emerging as a global leader in air connectivity. The UAE has solidified its position as a key hub in the post-pandemic landscape, reaffirming its status among
Nature Astronomy, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02208-9 The successful impact of NASA’s DART on Dimorphos, the moon of asteroid Didymos, has been analysed using advanced numerical simulations. The results reveal the asteroid’s low surface cohesion and rubble-pile structure, similar
A line of dense convective clouds in the Pacific Ocean, south of Central America, produces lightning. The lightning is being picked up by the GOES Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). The storm system sits about 500 km north of the Galapagos
NUCAPS Sounding Availability points, ca. 1245 UTC on 11 March 2024 (Click to enlarge) MetopC IASI and MHS/AMSU data are used to create NUCAPS profiles and that thermodynamic profiles are now flowing into AWIPS, as shown in the screen capture
Night MIcrophysics RGB, 0910-1140 UTC on 11 March 2024 CSPP Geosphere imagery (Night Microphysics RGB), above, shows baroclinic leaf over the Hawaiian islands that is suggestive of the early stages of a developing mid-latitude cyclone. Air Mass RGB over roughly
1-minute GOES-16 Day Cloud Type RGB images, with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density [click to play animated GIF| MP4] 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Type RGB images (above) displayed narrow bands of glaciated (brighter shades