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Sentinel-3 flies tandem
Jun 20, 2018 (ESA)
The answer, for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, is to engage in some nifty orbital flying. Sentinel-3 is a two-satellite mission to supply the coverage and d...
New NASA instrument on ISS to track plant water use on Earth
Jun 19, 2018 (UPI)
The instrument is called ECOSTRESS, or ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station, and it will measure the changing temperatures of pla...
New method makes weather forecasts right as rain
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
"Right now, forecasts are generally not accounting for what happens to a raindrop after it is picked up by radar," said Neil Fox, associate professor of atmosph...
MOF material offers selective, reversible and repeatable capture of toxic atmospheric gas
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
This discovery, confirmed by researchers using neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, could lead to air filtration tech...
Thailand to buy Airbus satellite as junta chief visits France
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
General Prayut Chan-O-Cha, who toppled an elected government four years ago, will stop in Britain and France next week for meetings with political and business ...
Ammonia distribution in Earth's upper atmosphere explained
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
The study authors used computer modeling to determine that ammonia is eventually released as a gas into the upper atmosphere. The modeling explains a mystery - ...
UCI scientists find new teleconnection for early and accurate precipitation prediction
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
"The interhemispheric teleconnection that we have discovered promises earlier and more accurate prediction of winter precipitation in California and the southwe...
Decades of satellite monitoring reveal Antarctic ice loss
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
Their report, published in a special Antarctica-focused issue of the journal Nature on June 14, 2018, explains how ice shelf thinning and collapse have triggere...
GRACE-FO turns on 'range finder,' sees mountain effects
Jun 13, 2018 (JPL)
The twin spacecraft launched May 22 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. NASA and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) engineers and mission con...
Close encounters of the fishy kind
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
Data released on GFW's map reveals in near real-time the location, time and identity of thousands of vessels involved in close encounters at sea. Fishing boats ...
20 Years of Earth Data Now at Your Fingertips
Jun 07, 2018 (SPX)
Thanks to the efforts of several NASA teams, the public can now interactively browse all global imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (...
Wind satellite shows off
Jun 07, 2018 (ESA)
This pioneering satellite uses powerful laser technology that probes the lowermost 30 km of our atmosphere to yield vertical profiles of the wind as well as inf...
NASA Soil Moisture Data Advances Global Crop Forecasts
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide. Now, with tools developed by a te...
New algorithm fuses quality and quantity in satellite imagery
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
Monitoring of agriculture, urban development, environmental quality and economic development are just a few ways people make use of satellite data. The new algo...
Researchers Use Satellite Imagery to Map Economic Inequality Among Indians
May 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
Economists Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia acquired images grabbed by satellites from the US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite and superimposed a...
The case of the relativistic particles solved with NASA missions
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
Now, with new research from NASA's Van Allen Probes and Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms - THEMIS - missions, published in Ge...
NASA awards options for 2 Joint Polar Satellite System satellites
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia, will build NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System JPSS-3 and -4. The contract value is $460 millionand the period of performance w...
Sentinels modernise Europe's agricultural policy
May 28, 2018 (ESA)
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) came into force in 1962 to ensure affordable food for European citizens and a fair standard of living for farmers. While th...
Climate Change May Lead to Bigger Atmospheric Rivers
May 25, 2018 (JPL)
The new study projects atmospheric rivers will be significantly longer and wider than the ones we observe today, leading to more frequent atmospheric river cond...
University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics adopts Ada and GNAT Pro for NASA project
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
CLARREO Pathfinder will deploy a Reflected Solar spectrometer on the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2021 that will detect the complete spectrum o...
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