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Twin spacecraft to weigh in on Earth's changing water
May 01, 2018 (JPL)
GRACE-FO will continue monitoring monthly changes in the distribution of mass within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as withi...
Earth's magnetic field is not about to reverse
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
There has been speculation that the Earth's geomagnetic fields may be about to reverse , with substantial implications, due to a weakening of the magnetic field...
South Atlantic Anomaly not evidence of a reversing Earth's magnetic field
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
Within the research community it is a subject of debate whether this anomaly is a sign of an imminent reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles. Based on a reconst...
Moon holds key to improving satellite views of Earth
May 01, 2018 (ESA)
While the surface of the Earth is ever changing, the face of the Moon has stayed the same for millions of years, apart from occasional meteoroid impacts. This m...
China launches Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites
Apr 30, 2018 (XNA)
The Long March-11 carrier rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:42 p.m. The launch was the 272nd flight mission for th...
China to launch new Earth observation satellite in May
Apr 26, 2018 (XNA)
The new satellite, capable of obtaining spectral information from ultraviolet to long-wave infrared radiation, can be used to survey inland waters and mineral r...
NASA celebrates National Parks Week with park photos from space
Apr 26, 2018 (UPI)
The newest photograph, NASA's Thursday "image of the day," features the Everglades as seen from 250 miles above Earth's surface. The pic was snapped by NASA ast...
Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus
Apr 25, 2018 (ESA)
The 1150 kg Sentinel-3B satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher from Plesetsk, Russia, at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST; 21:57 local time) on 25 April. Ro...
Sentinel-3B on launch pad
Apr 24, 2018 (ESA)
The Sentinel-3B satellite has been at the cosmodrome since mid-March being readied for its ride into space on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST). After being se...
NASA satellite spots northern lights from above
Apr 24, 2018 (UPI)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite's day-night band, or DNB sensor, is designed to observe a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared. The in...
Satellite imagery sheds light on agricultural water use
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Keeping track of just how much water gets used-and making sure it gets used efficiently and legally, where and when it's needed-across millions of acres of crop...
Europe poised to launch ocean-monitoring satellite
Apr 23, 2018 (AFP)
Dubbed Sentinel-3B, the orbiter will become the seventh to join the multi-billion-euro Copernicus Earth monitoring satellite constellation since April 2014. Wit...
Eye in the Sky: Bill Gates Backs Real Time Global Satellite Surveillance Network
Apr 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
On Wednesday, EarthNow - a startup that hopes to provide satellite imagery and live video in real time using a constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth - ...
New camera tech reveals underwater ecosystems from above
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
But one person can only see so much coral in a dive. What if you wanted to assess coral over an entire region or see how reefs are faring on a global scale? Ent...
Airbus adds extra precision to Sentinel-3 satellite altimetry
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
It is one of the essential instruments of the Sentinel-3 spacecraft, measuring atmospheric humidity as supplementary information for tropospheric path correctio...
The 'radical' ways sunlight builds bigger molecules in the atmosphere
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
In ACS Central Science, researchers demonstrate that sunlight can cause certain molecules at the ocean's surface to activate others, resulting in larger molecul...
NASA mapping hurricane damage across Everglades
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
Flying the same paths over the Everglades three months after Hurricane Irma, the scientists' preliminary findings reveal that 60 percent of the mangrove forests...
NASA's world tour of the atmosphere reveals surprises along the way
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
While satellites in space measuring the major gases can close some of that gap, it takes an aircraft to find out what's really happening in the chemistry of the...
China to launch new weather satellite
Apr 17, 2018 (XNA)
The Fengyun-II 09 satellite, the last in the Fengyun-II series, will be able to collect meteorological, maritime, and hydrological data to help weather forecast...
First global carbon dioxide maps produced by Chinese observation satellite
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers published the maps, based on data collected in April and July 2017, in the latest edition of the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, a Spr...
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