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NASA-led airborne mission studies storm intensification in northern hemisphere
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
The scope of the mission initially focused only on the East Pacific region, but was expanded to both the Gulf and Atlantic regions to give the science team broa...
Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
That's because the ozone-depleting substances controlled by the treaty are also potent greenhouse gases, with heat-trapping abilities up to 10,000 times greater...
Airbus completes MetOp-C platform/payload coupling
Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)
The payload module of MetOp-C, developed and built by Airbus in Germany, was delivered to Toulouse after it completed a series of tests at ESTEC, the technical ...
Teledyne Brown Engineering and Oakman Aerospace, Inc. to partner on MUSES Platform
Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)
This platform was developed as part of a cooperative agreement with Teledyne Brown Engineering and NASA and will provide opportunities for imaging, technology d...
Successful filming of fastest aurora flickering
Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)
When an aurora "flickers" its brightness and motion in some areas begin to change rapidly. This flickering typically oscillates at a 1/10 second period, which i...
NASA airborne mission returns to Africa to study smoke, clouds
Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)
The Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions, or ORACLES, field mission is carrying out the month-long field campaign from Sao Tome and Prin...
Lockheed Martin Will Build New Space Instrument Focused on Vegetation Health and Carbon Monitoring
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
"Lockheed Martin has the right skills to make GeoCARB a success, bringing together our deep expertise in infrared sensing and hosted payloads," said Gary Kushne...
NOAA's GOES-S and GOES-T satellites coming together
Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)
The GOES-S satellite is fully integrated and is currently undergoing its final functional testing to confirm it successfully passed mechanical and thermal envir...
Upper Atmospheric Mission SPORTs an Aerospace Sensor
Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)
Sometimes there are density depletions near the equator known as equatorial plasma bubbles, and rapid changes in the density at the edges of the bubbles are kno...
Aalto-1 satellite sends first image back to VTT Finland
Aug 01, 2017 (SPX)
Launched on the morning of 23 June from India, the Aalto-1 satellite's first month in space has gone according to plan. 'We have run checks on the majority of t...
Vega orbits two Earth observation satellites
Aug 01, 2017 (ESA)
The launch took place on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:58:33 pm (local time in Kourou) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. ...
NASA Solves a Drizzle Riddle
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
The study offers a pathway for improving accuracy in weather and climate models' treatments of rainfall - recognized as one of the greater challenges in improvi...
Airbus built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite ready for launch
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the global monitoring programme "Copernicus", a joint European Commission-ESA undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and a...
North American monsoon storms fewer but more extreme
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
Although there are now fewer storms, the largest monsoon thunderstorms bring heavier rain and stronger winds than did the monsoon storms of 60 years ago, the sc...
Manmade aerosols identified as driver in shifting global rainfall patterns
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
The results of the climate system-model simulations conducted by researchers Brian Soden and Eui-Seok Chung from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School ...
Early Airborne Results Address South Korean Air Quality
Jul 20, 2017 (SPX)
Initial scientific results from the joint NASA-Korean field campaign released this week identified several strategies to reduce ozone and particulate matter lev...
Great Plains to see more dust storms in second half of the 21st century
Jul 17, 2017 (UPI)
According to new models developed by climate scientists at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, already dry and dusty r...
Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows
Jul 13, 2017 (UPI)
Earth's magnetic field is generated by what's called the "dynamo effect," a unique combination of a geophysical factors. Of these factors, the convection curren...
Quantum mechanics inside Earth's core
Jul 13, 2017 (SPX)
Despite its huge significance for life on our planet, it is still not fully known what creates the Earth's magnetic field. There are various theories regarding ...
SSL To Provide Next-Generation Imaging Satellite Constellation To Digitalglobe
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
Called WorldView Legion, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites will more than double DigitalGlobe's high-resolution capacity in important regions. The contract i...
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