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Science Spotlight - El Niño: A Global Weather PhenomenonSeptember 23, 2011 In the context of climate and weather, the name El Niño originally referred to the warm ocean current that appears along the pacific coast of South America each year around Christmas. Recently however, the term has been applied to those years when there is a change in this annual pattern. 
Image of the MonthMay 15, 2007 NASA Finds Vast Regions of West Antarctica Melted in Recent Past. NASA's QuikScat satellite detected extensive areas of snowmelt, shown in yellow and red, in west Antarctica in January 2005.
QuikScat's 'Greatest' HitsJune 26, 2009 NASA's wind-watching QuikScat satellite turned 10 years old June of 2009. Take a spin down memory lane and see some of the mission's greatest achievements.
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 In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the
 NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a
 Ida, the third hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season and now a tropical storm, churns through the Gulf of Mexico in this pair of NASA satellite
 
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