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NASA joins international science team in exploring auroral cusp from Norway
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
NASA and United States scientists will join those from Norway, Japan, Canada and other countries during the next two years to investigate the physics of heating...
New partnership aids sustainable growth with earth observations
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Under a three-year agreement signed on Feb. 22, NASA will support two Conservation International-led initiatives, one focused on land ecosystems in Africa, the ...
Tracking the global footprint of industrial fishing
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Using satellite feeds, machine learning techniques and common ship tracking technology, a team of researchers from Global Fishing Watch, the National Geographic...
CloudSat Exits the 'A-Train'
Feb 26, 2018 (JPL)
CloudSat launched in 2006 to improve understanding of the role clouds play in our climate system. It joined the A-Train about a month later. In April 2011, the ...
Swarm trio becomes a quartet
Feb 23, 2018 (ESA)
In orbit since 2013, ESA's three identical Swarm satellites have been returning a wealth of information about how our magnetic field is generated and how it pro...
Tracking a typhoon's seismic footprint
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has found a new way to identify the movement and intensity of hurricanes, typhoons and other tropical cyclones by tracking ...
Ball Aerospace Delivers Flight Cryocooler Early for NASA's Landsat Mission
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
For more than 45 years, Landsat Earth-observing satellite missions have gathered multispectral imagery from space, helping scientists understand the impacts of ...
Farewell to a Pioneering Pollution Sensor
Feb 14, 2018 (JPL)
TES was planned for a five-year mission but far outlasted that term. A mechanical arm on the instrument began stalling intermittently in 2010, affecting TES's a...
Micro to macro mapping - Observing past landscapes via remote-sensing
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
More recently, data produced by photogrammetry and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) models have become commonplace for those involved in geographical analysi...
ESA Cluster mission unveils the magnetosphere
Feb 13, 2018 (ESA)
Cluster was the first mission to study the magnetosphere (the region where Earth's magnetic field dominates) in three dimensions and it has provided important c...
Landsat 8 marks five years in orbit
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
But more impressive and important than any set of numbers, Landsat 8 - which makes global measurements of Earth's land surface - strengthened the program's role...
Chinese company hitches space ride on UK satellite
Feb 12, 2018 (XNA)
Beijing-based Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co will lease the satellite from Guildford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. The satellite will be ...
NASA Space Sensors to Address Key Earth Questions
Feb 08, 2018 (JPL)
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far Infrared Experiment (PREFIRE) will fly a pair of small CubeSat satellites to probe a little-studied portion of the radiant e...
Ozone at lower latitudes not recovering, despite ozone hole healing
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
Global ozone has been declining since the 1970s owing to certain man-made chemicals. Since these were banned, parts of the layer have been recovering, particula...
SSTL and 21AT announce new Earth Observation data contract
Feb 07, 2018 (SPX)
The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21AT, and witnessed by the UK Secretary...
Ozone layer declining over populated zones: study
Feb 06, 2018 (AFP)
A 1987 treaty, the Montreal Protocol, banned industrial aerosols that chemically dissolved ozone in the high atmosphere, especially above Antarctica. Nearly thr...
Powerful new dataset reveals patterns of global ozone pollution
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
That's one conclusion from a new health assessment based on the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report or TOAR, an effort by the International Global Atmospheric ...
Scientists explain the impacts of aerosol radiative forcing
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
Indirectly, they modulate Earth's energy balance by altering cloud properties - in particular, cloud droplet size - by serving as cloud condensation nuclei, whi...
Weather pioneer returns 60 years after historic mission
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
After suffering three humbling launch setbacks, the U.S. finally had an answer to Sputnik and that answer, nestled atop a Juno rocket, was Explorer I. The launc...
UK to play a major role in space weather mission concept
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
The new mission aims to put a spacecraft at a fixed point away from the line between the sun and the Earth, known as the 5th Lagrange point, so it can monitor f...
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