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  DC=8 Airborne Lab                          Image NASA     NASA has released details of 5 new programs starting in 2015 to see  how long-range air pollution, warming oceans and fires in Africa affect our climate. these are:- Atmospheric chemistry and air pollution Ecosystem changes in a warming ocean Greenhouse gas sources African fires and Atlantic clouds  Melting Greenland glaciers  The study will involve seven NASA  centers  25 education institutions there US Government departments and two private sector partners. For source look Here

  The sea ice in the Antarctic has been measured many ways in the passed now an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)  has been used in a proof of concept operation to map the base of the ice. The vehicle used upward facing radar to look at the underside of the ice. The vehicle moved backwards and forwards crisscrossing the area to get a radar image. Source    BBC       Nature.com

  NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program has released a map off NEOs that have burned up /impacted the earth since 1994.The data could be used to help scientists to refine their predictions on NEO's  Source Jet Propulsion Laboratory