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NISAR Radar Satellite Tracks Mexico City Ground Sinking at Over Half an Inch Per Month
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
The measurements, based on preliminary data collected between October 2025 and January 2026 during Mexico City's dry season, represent one of the first substant...
Deep Learning Reconstructs 32 Years of Global Nighttime Light Data
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Nighttime light observations from satellites have become a standard proxy for measuring human activity, urban growth, and socioeconomic dynamics. Two major data...
Geomagnetic Reversal Trigger Mechanism Study Finds Dipole Field Bi-Stability in Dynamo Simulations
Apr 28, 2026 (SPX)
The Earth's global magnetic field is generated and maintained through the dynamo process, whereby thermal convection of liquid iron in the outer core drives mag...
PlanetiQ Wins 15 Million Dollar Air Force STRATFI Deal for Next-Gen Space Weather Data
Apr 17, 2026 (SPX)
The mission will focus on advancing GNSS-RO (radio occultation), GNSS-PRO (polarimetric radio occultation), and GNSS-R (reflectometry) capabilities. The program...
UK and Saudi partners design climate focused Earth observation mission
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
Funded through the UK Government's Gulf Strategy Fund, the project brings together researchers and engineers from both countries to jointly define a climate-foc...
LizzieSat 3 hosts HEO USA non Earth imaging payload in orbit
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
HEO USA designed the Holmes Mk1 sensor to capture resolved imagery of resident space objects from orbit to support space domain awareness, satellite operations ...
ESA-SSTL Twin HydroGNSS Satellites Return Water Cycle Data During Commissioning
Mar 16, 2026 (SPX)
HydroGNSS is ESA's first Scout mission, developed under the Earth Observation FutureEO programme. Scout missions are designed to move quickly and cheaply, trans...
ASII launches national geospatial digital twin for Australian agriculture
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
The flagship project will develop a sovereign, AI enabled geospatial digital twin that fuses satellite Earth observation, Internet of Things and sensor streams,...
Satellite radar maps reveal rapid delta land loss
Feb 18, 2026 (SPX)
Ten of the worlds 34 biggest cities are built on river deltas, making these environments critical hubs for people, infrastructure, trade and ecosystems. Major m...
When Earth's magnetic field took its time flipping
Feb 10, 2026 (SPX)
Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, and the record of these flips is preserved in rocks and...
Satellite study revises methane loss high in Earth atmosphere
Feb 10, 2026 (SPX)
Methane remains in the atmosphere for roughly 10 years before it is broken down and removed, so understanding how much is removed is critical for determining wh...
Airbus and Hisdesat extend deal to market next generation PAZ-2 radar imagery
Feb 09, 2026 (SPX)
The partners intend to use PAZ-2 to advance Synthetic Aperture Radar based Earth observation solutions for both military and commercial users worldwide. Eric Ev...
Scientists trace Covid era methane surge to shifts in air chemistry and wetlands
Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)
Methane is the second largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide and packs a much stronger punch per tonne. Over a century, a tonne of methane ...
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
Launched in 2022, Destination Earth aims to build highly accurate digital twins of the planet to simulate and predict how natural processes interact with human ...
Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
The research team from UC Irvine's Department of Earth System Science analyzed satellite observations from 2004 to 2024 to quantify how long nitrous oxide remai...
New axis grid links complex earth data in space and time
Feb 04, 2026 (SPX)
The representation separates space, time, and measured parameters into distinct axes, then aligns them in a unified grid that can accommodate a wide range of sa...
NISAR radar view maps surface changes in Mississippi Delta
Feb 02, 2026 (SPX)
The scene, acquired on November 29, 2025, with NISAR's L-band synthetic aperture radar instrument, spans the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the winding ...
NASA Libera payload completes testing for future Earth energy tracking mission
Feb 02, 2026 (SPX)
Libera is designed to continue a decades long data record tracking how much radiant energy enters and leaves Earth's atmosphere, a key factor in understanding t...
Major rains drive widespread flooding in southern Mozambique
Jan 30, 2026 (SPX)
A pair of satellite images from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments show the transformation of the landscape over the cours...
New European Infrared Sounder Maps Atmosphere In Three Dimensions
Jan 28, 2026 (SPX)
The new data come from the Infrared Sounder instrument on Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1, the first European geostationary satellite to carry a hyperspectr...
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