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New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

The model, developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, estimates potential landslide activity triggered by rainfall. Rainfall is the...

Earth's atmosphere: new results from the International Space Station

Mar 21, 2018 (ESA)

The Station takes only 90 minutes for a complete circuit of our planet, experiencing 16 sunrises, 16 sunsets, and sometimes moonrises or moonsets, every day. By...

Sentinels helping to map minerals

Mar 21, 2018 (ESA)

Geological maps identify different types of rock, faults, groundwater and deposits. They are not only essential for building infrastructure and assessing risk, ...

Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to water

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

By measuring the velocity at which seismic waves travel at various depths, scientists can determine the types of rocks and other materials that lie beneath the ...

ESA testing detection of floating plastic litter from orbit

Mar 20, 2018 (ESA)

We dump around 10 million tonnes of plastic in the oceans annually. Though most conspicuous along coastlines, plastic litter is also found out in the open ocean...

Diamonds from the deep: Study suggests water may exist in Earth's lower mantle

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Now a new study suggests that water may be more common than expected at extreme depths approaching 400 miles and possibly beyond - within Earth's lower mantle. ...

China launches land exploration satellite

Mar 18, 2018 (XNA)

The satellite is the fourth of its kind and mainly used for exploration of land resources by remote sensing. A Long March-2D rocket carried the satellite into s...

Scientist eyes Chinese satellites to help world tackle air pollution

Mar 18, 2018 (XNA)

Now as China makes progress in clearing its skies, the meteorologist hopes the technology can also be shared to brighten the future for all, both at home and ov...

Spring comes to Tokyo with first cherry blossoms

Mar 17, 2018 (AFP)

Forecasters watching trees at Yasukuni Shrine said the city's first blossoms had appeared, marking the beginning of two weeks in which Tokyo's parks, temple gro...

Scientists accurately model the action of aerosols on clouds

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

Aerosols play a key role in cloud formation, as they provide the "seeds" - called cloud condensation nuclei - that allow clouds to form and affect their life cy...

Full house for EDRS

Mar 14, 2018 (ESA)

After several months of rigorous testing, the system has added the last 'colour vision' Sentinel to the list of Sentinels it serves, bringing the satellite's vi...

Voyaging for the Sentinels

Mar 12, 2018 (ESA)

Information from the Sentinels is used in a myriad of ways to make lives easier and businesses more efficient. For example, ocean forecasting is important for m...

Where fresh is cool in Bay of Bengal

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

Understanding how the ocean interacts with the atmosphere is particularly important in this region, where about 2.5 billion people depend on the monsoon for the...

Collaboration will study desert dust's impact on climate from space

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

The "Earth surface Mineral dust source InvesTigation" project, or EMIT, pairs NASA technology with Cornell research to pursue new science with an advanced instr...

Study discovers South African wildfires create climate cooling

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

"If you change the particles, you are changing the composition of the cloud," says Xiaohong Liu, a UW professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science and the...

NASA space laser completes 2,000-mile road trip

Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)

ICESat-2, or the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, is slated to launch in September to measure the height of Earth's surface, particularly the changing...

New data helps explain recent fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field

Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)

The record provides historical context to help explain recent, ongoing changes in the magnetic field, most prominently in an area in the Southern Hemisphere kno...

Lockheed Martin supports weather services with 2nd Series R weather satellite

Mar 03, 2018 (SPX)

NOAA's next weather satellite - built by Lockheed Martin - in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series, GOES-S, which will be renamed GO...

How does GEOS-5-based planetary boundary layer height and humidity vary across China?

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

Dr. Yidan SI and Associate Professor Shenshen LI, from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used ground-observed data...

US blasts off another satellite to boost weather forecasts

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

"Three, two, one and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Atlas V rocket rumbled into the blue sky at 5:02 pm (2202 GMT) over Cape Canaveral Air Force Stati...