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American Public Media Great Audiences. Great Experiences. List of United States radio networks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a list of radio networks or radio stations in the United States. Commercial broadcasters[edit] State commercial networks[edit] Alabama Radio Network, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications.Cejka Weather Network, run by WIVB-TV meteorologist Mike Cejka, provides forecasts to independent stations in the Twin Tiers and Western New YorkCowboy State News Network, a subsidiary of Montgomery Broadcasting L.L.C. Non-commercial broadcasters[edit] National government broadcasters[edit] Public radio state networks[edit] Religious broadcasters[edit] Former Networks[edit] See also[edit] List of United States television networks

Rosetta's comet has daily water-ice cycle Material jetting from the comet on July 7, 2015. Image via ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0. Scientists studying data from the Rosetta spacecraft – which has been orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko since August, 2014 – have identified a region on the comet’s surface where water ice appears and disappears in sync with the comet’s day, or rotation period. They reported their findings on September 23, 2015 in the journal Nature. Fabrizio Capaccioni, who is principal investigator for a key instrument on Rosetta called the Visible, InfraRed and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS), said in a statement: We suspected such a water-ice cycle might be at play at comets, on the basis of theoretical models and previous observations of other comets. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, lead author of the study, said they now understand the mechanism that: … replenishes the surface of the comet with fresh ice at every rotation: this keeps the comet ‘alive.’ De Sanctis explained: Via ESA

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