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* 6 September – A study by the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] finds that large-scale solar panels and wind turbines in the [[Sahara desert]] would have a major impact on rainfall, vegetation and temperatures – potentially greening the region.<ref>{{citation |title=Large-scale wind and solar power 'could green the Sahara' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45435593 |date=7 September 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=7 September 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Large wind and solar farms in the Sahara would increase heat, rain, vegetation |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uoia-lwa090418.php |date=6 September 2018 |work=EurekAlert! |access-date=7 September 2018 }}</ref>
* 7 September
**Researchers at the [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] release a high resolution terrain map (detail down to the size of a car, and less in some areas) of [[Antarctica]], named the "[[Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica]]" ([[REMA]]).<ref name="NYT-20180907">{{cite news |
**A group of Japanese and American scientists publish a research paper which concludes that "space weathering" on the surface of [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]], in tandem with its eccentric orbit, has caused its surface to be divided into two distinct geologic units, known as the red and blue units.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Sands of Phobos: The Martian moon's eccentric orbit refreshes its surface |date=7 September 2018 |arxiv=1809.02520 |last1=Liang |first1=Qi-Yu |last2=Venkatramani |first2=Aditya V. |last3=Cantu |first3=Sergio H. |last4=Nicholson |first4=Travis L. |last5=Gullans |first5=Michael J. |last6=Gorshkov |first6=Alexey V. |last7=Thompson |first7=Jeff D. |last8=Chin |first8=Cheng |last9=Lukin |first9=Mikhail D. |last10=Vuletic |first10=Vladan |doi=10.1038/s41561-019-0323-9 |volume=12 |journal=Nature Geoscience |pages=229–234 |s2cid=134841669 }}</ref>
* 9 September – Astronomers report detecting another 72 [[Fast Radio Burst]]s (FRBs), using [[artificial intelligence]], from [[Fast radio burst#FRB 121102|FRB 121102]] that had been missed earlier, resulting in about 300 total FRBs from this object. FRB 121102 is the only known ''repeating'' fast radio source which is very unusual since all other currently known FRBs (very powerful and extremely short-lived astronomical objects) have not been found to repeat, occurring one time only.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Yunfan Gerry |last2=Gajjar |first2=Vishal |last3=Foster |first3=Griffin |last4=Siemion |first4=Andrew |last5=Cordes |first5=James |last6=Law |first6=Casey |last7=Wang |first7=Yu |date=9 September 2018|title=Fast Radio Burst 121102 Pulse Detection and Periodicity: A Machine Learning Approach|journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=866 |issue=2 |pages=149 |arxiv=1809.03043|doi=10.3847/1538-4357/aadf31 |bibcode=2018ApJ...866..149Z |s2cid=117337002 }}</ref><ref name="SP-20180911">{{cite news |last=Wall |first=Mike |title=Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space, and AI Just Found More of Them |url=https://www.space.com/41775-breakthrough-listen-fast-radio-bursts.html |date=11 September 2018 |work=[[Space.com]] |access-date=11 September 2018 }}</ref><ref name="SA-20180911">{{cite news |last=Starr |first=Michelle |title=Astronomers Have Detected an Astonishing 72 New Mystery Radio Bursts From Space – We still have no idea what these signals are. |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/72-new-fast-radio-burst-signals-frb-121102-breakthrough-listen-neural-network-machine-learning |date=11 September 2018 |work=ScienceAlert.com |access-date=11 September 2018 }}</ref>
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