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Scientists Produce Best Estimate of Earth's Composition
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The solar system began as a dense blob in a molecular cloud of hydrogen gas and dust that collapsed under its own gravity, forming the early Sun, Earth and othe...
Earth through different eyes
Sep 19, 2017 (ESA)
Satellites flying hundreds of kilometres above our heads continually capture images of our planet and deliver a wealth of data on our environment. In fact, sate...
Sentinel-5P launch preparations in full swing
Sep 19, 2017 (ESA)
The Sentinel-5P satellite has been at Plesetsk in northern Russia for almost two weeks. So far, it has been taken out of its transport container, positioned for...
Dust devils contribute large amount of particulate matter to atmospheres of Earth, Mars
Sep 18, 2017 (UPI)
The findings, detailed in the journal Astrobiology, could help scientists better understand weather and atmospheric phenomena on Earth and Mars. Planetary scien...
Boeing to Design and Build Seven Medium Earth Orbit Satellites for SES
Sep 14, 2017 (SPX)
The O3b mPOWER satellites will include Boeing's most-advanced digital payload technology and will be built using electronics from the flight-proven 702 satellit...
Team gathers unprecedented data on atmosphere's organic chemistry
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
The teams, which included a group from MIT using a newly-developed device to identify and quantify compounds of carbon, reported their combined results in a pap...
Who is the chief culprit of dust concentrations over East Asia?
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
A case study for the dust storm in Beijing indicated that total economic loss due to dust storm ranging from 2,268.5 million RMB (US$273.3 million) to 5,796 mil...
Airbus to reshape Earth observation market with its Pleiades Neo constellation
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
This first batch of four optical and very agile satellites will double the number of visits per day anywhere on Earth and offer a re-tasking rate which is five ...
Ship exhaust helps grow bigger ocean thunderstorms
Sep 07, 2017 (UPI)
When researchers mapped and analyzed global storm patterns, they found the largest storms tended to form above two the busiest shipping channels. Further analys...
New era in air-quality monitoring a step away
Sep 07, 2017 (ESA)
Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It follows five other Sentinel satellites already in orbit and delivering a ...
Cloud formation suppressed by biogenic organic emissions
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Submicron atmospheric aerosols, although they are not so visible, play a pivotal role in the climate system. They cause temperature variations by scattering or ...
Ball Aerospace Delivers the JPSS-1 Weather Satellite to Launch Site
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
"The arrival of the spacecraft at Vandenberg is a tremendous milestone for the program and the culmination of excellent collaboration and hard work by the JPSS-...
High Resolution Smallsats Built by SSL Arrive at Vandenberg AFB for Launch
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, built the six high-resolution small satellites for Planet for its...
Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
But collecting enough airborne dust to pinpoint its source is challenging. Now, a team of researchers has developed a way to match microscopic quartz grains to ...
Teledyne e2v sensors will play a vital role in ESA's FLEX satellite mission to study plant health and stress from space
Sep 01, 2017 (SPX)
The FLEX mission, which is the eighth in ESA's Earth Explorer programme, is scheduled to launch in 2022. For the first time, it will enable plant photosynthetic...
Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth
Aug 28, 2017 (Sputnik)
Researchers from Russia's National University of Science and Technology, the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics, and Moscow State University's In...
Man-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
In a new paper published in Nature, the researchers report two important findings regarding methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and large contributor to global w...
NASA Mission to Study Atmospheric Disturbances from Marshall Islands
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
The Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, or WINDY, mission will study a phenomenon that occurs in the ionosphere - a layer of charged particles in the...
How future volcanic eruptions will impact Earth's ozone layer
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
The extent of damage to the ozone layer that results from a large, explosive eruption depends on complex atmospheric chemistry, including the levels of human-ma...
Identifying individual atmospheric equatorial waves from a total flow field
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Equatorial waves are generated from spatially non-uniform diabatic heating fields, including latent heating releases from convective storms. These equatorial wa...
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