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First launch of new fire-monitoring satellite aiming to transform wildfire detection and response
  1. First launch of new fire-monitoring satellite aiming to transform wildfire detection and response

    Remote-sensing technology originally designed for hurricane forecasting at the University of Michigan inspires tools to help fight wildfires from space.

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  2. AI symposium: Michigan Engineering speakers share how they use AI in research

    In addition to making predictions and scientific discoveries, engineers at the MIDAS symposium discussed improving AI’s interpretability and preventing misuse.

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  3. Leinweber Innovation Lab becomes design hub for moon garden equipment

    The lab’s four open studio spaces were the perfect fit for the Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems student team to help future moon missions.

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  4. A new look at Voyager 2 data explains one of Uranus’s long-standing mysteries

    The spacecraft saw Uranus’s magnetic field at a weird time, so our picture of the planet and its moons actually represents an edge case rather than the norm.

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  5. Could one of Jupiter’s moons support alien life? U-M scientists are on the case

    U-M researchers helped find the first evidence for an ocean on the icy moon Europa. Now, with NASA’s return mission, they aim to learn if it’s habitable.

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  6. The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

    S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field don’t form at the sun’s surface, like some scientists thought, and can’t directly heat the sun’s corona.

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  7. Sea ice’s cooling power is waning faster than its area of extent 

    A shift in Antarctica’s melting trends and slushy Arctic ice pushes warming from changing sea ice toward the upper limits of climate model estimates.

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  8. Snowfall and drought: $4.8M field campaign will improve forecasts in western US, led by U-M

    A mountaintop laboratory and a suite of radar instruments will study winter storms from large-scale cloud movement down to individual snowflakes in an NSF-funded project.

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  9. Tracking undetectable space junk

    Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth’s orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft.

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  10. NASA advances U-M’s Mission Concept Study to photograph entire auroras from space

    Two satellites could join NASA’s fleet studying the Sun and its impacts on Earth’s magnetic field.

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