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            "title": "Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic",
            "description": "Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon rainforest, where they fertilize plant life.As the climate changes, dust activity will continue to be affected. In a new study, NASA researchers predict that within the next century we will see dust transport approach a 20,000-year minimum. || ",
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            "title": "NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Carbon Research",
            "description": "Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || TreeMapping_Thumbnail.png (1920x1080) [3.4 MB] || TreeMapping_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [208.9 KB] || TreeMapping_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.6 KB] || TreeMapping_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || TreeMapping_FINAL.mp4 (1920x1080) [79.8 MB] || TreeMapping_FINAL.webm (1920x1080) [9.7 MB] || TreeMapping_FINAL.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || TreeMapping_FINAL.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || TreeMapping_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || ",
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            "title": "NASA On Air: NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants (2/24/2015)",
            "description": "LEAD: NASA scientists have made the first multi-year satellite-based estimate of how much Saharan dust in Africa floats all the way to South America’s Amazon rainforest.1. An estimated 28 million tons of African dust falls on the Amazon rainforest – more than 100,000 semi-truck loads.2. A small but very important ingredient in the dust is the phosphorus from an ancient dusty lake bed in Chad.3. The African phosphorus plays a critical role as a natural fertilizer for the Amazon rainforest growth.TAG: This dust transport is the largest on the planet. Satellite studies will also help determine its relationship to climate changes. || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.3 KB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.0 KB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_web.png (320x180) [75.0 KB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_thm.png (80x40) [5.5 KB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_WEA_CEN.wmv (1280x720) [16.3 MB] || DUST_WC3.avi (1280x720) [16.9 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_baron.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.9 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.webm (1920x1080) [2.9 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_960x540.m4v (960x540) [111.7 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [173.6 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [405.3 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_prores.mov (1920x1080) [434.1 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.m4v (1920x1080) [405.3 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [669.5 MB] || WC_Dust-1920-MASTER_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [769.1 MB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2015-02-24T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Satellite Tracks Saharan Dust To Amazon In 3-D",
            "description": "For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish.The new dust transport estimates were derived from data collected by a lidar instrument on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, or CALIPSO, satellite from 2007 though 2013.An average of 27.7 million tons of dust per year – enough to fill 104,908 semi trucks – fall to the surface over the Amazon basin. The phosphorus portion, an estimated 22,000 tons per year, is about the same amount as that lost from rain and flooding. The finding is part of a bigger research effort to understand the role of dust and aerosols in the environment and on local and global climate.Research: The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite ObservationsJournal: Geophysical Research LettersLink to paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL063040/fullHere is the YouTube video. || ",
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            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2003-11-05T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Microbes Hitch Ride on African Dust",
            "description": "Traveling Dust Animation  -  The dust comes every year during northern Africa's dry season, when storm activity in the Sahara Desert and Sahel generate clouds of dust.  The dust originating from fine particles in the arid topsoil is transported into the atmosphere by winds and may be carried in excess of 10,000 feet high into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds. Typically, it takes one to two weeks for the dust clouds to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the continental United States..This animation illustrates microbes hitching  rides across the Atlantic in the highly irregular nooks and crannies  found in the surfaces of dust particles and how they are transported  across the Atlantic Ocean. || dustparts_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x768) [143.4 KB] || dustparts_thm.png (80x40) [18.1 KB] || dustparts_pre.jpg (320x240) [20.5 KB] || dustparts_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [118.0 KB] || a010008_seq001.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.9 MB] || 720x486_4x3_29.97p (720x486) [32.0 KB] || a010008_seq001.mpg (720x480) [13.2 MB] || a010008_H264_640x480.mp4 (640x480) [7.4 MB] || dustparts.mpg (320x240) [2.7 MB] || ",
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            "id": 2137,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2137/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-05-10T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "West Africa Dust Storms",
            "description": "On the Coast of West Africa, dust storms are a common occurrance, if you take a look at this one, its about the size of Spain. SeaWIFS returned this dramatic close-up view of a vast, developing cloud of Saharan desert dust blowing from northwest Africa a thousand miles or more out over the Atlantic Ocean. Aerosol particles larger than about 1 micrometer in size are produced by windblown dust and other sources. After formation, the aerosols are mixed and transported by atmospheric motions and are primarily removed by cloud and precipitation processes. From space-based vantage points, other satellite images have also revealed storms that transport massive quantities of fine sand and dust across Earth's oceans. || ",
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            "id": 589,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/589/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-01-01T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "African Vegetation: Comparing July 1984 and July 1994",
            "description": "For many years, scientists have believed that the southern expansion of the Sahara has been due to human activity. However, results from the AVHRR instrument and its measurements of vegetation suggest a different explanation: rainfall patterns. In drier years (1984 was one of the driest summers in recorded history in Northern Africa), the Sahara expands south, but in wetter years (such as 1994), vegetation moves back and there is no net expansion of the Sahara as had been previously suggested. || ",
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            "title": "African Vegetation: Comparing August 1984 and August 1994",
            "description": "For many years, scientists have believed that the southern expansion of the Sahara has been due to human activity. However, results from the AVHRR instrument and its measurements of vegetation suggest a different explanation: rainfall patterns. In drier years (1984 was one of the driest summers in recorded history in Northern Africa), the Sahara expands south, but in wetter years (such as 1994), vegetation moves back and there is no net expansion of the Sahara as had been previously suggested. || ",
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            "title": "African Vegetation: Comparing September 1984 and September 1994",
            "description": "For many years, scientists have believed that the southern expansion of the Sahara has been due to human activity. However, results from the AVHRR instrument and its measurements of vegetation suggest a different explanation: rainfall patterns. In drier years (1984 was one of the driest summers in recorded history in Northern Africa), the Sahara expands south, but in wetter years (such as 1994), vegetation moves back and there is no net expansion of the Sahara as had been previously suggested. || ",
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