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Bangladesh's heavy rainfall examined with NASA's IMERG
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
Monsoon rainfall has been especially heavy over this area that includes southeastern Bangladesh, northeastern India and western Burma (Myanmar). This disaster f...
Making waves with the hot electrons within Earth's radiation belts
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
These radiation belt electrons travel near the speed of light and emit and absorb waves that are used by scientists to understand space weather. An internationa...
Sofradir designs supersize near infrared detector for space observation
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
The ALFA 2Kx2K (Astronomy Large Focal Array) 15um pitch short-wave infrared detector will provide the highest levels of performance in Quantum Efficiency (QE), ...
A smokestack to the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
Stratospheric aerosol, however, very far away from the Earth surface, receives too much less attention, partly because its formation is closely related to the n...
Satellite image showcases centuries of desertification in India
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
Geologic and archaeological analysis suggests the region, which encompasses more than 123,000 square miles in India and Pakistan, was once green and lush. Centu...
Airbus celebrates 10 years of precision and reliability of TerraSAR-X satellite
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
Developed and constructed by Airbus Defence and Space teams from Friedrichshafen for the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the satellite orbits at a height of 514 ...
Free mapping: plotting development in Africa
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
Luck, if not a miracle, is required as easy clues such as street names, even where they exist, are usually not posted and address numbers are rarely marked. Mos...
NASA satellites image, measure Florida's extreme rainfall
Jun 08, 2017 (UPI)
GPM is a joint mission between NASA and Japan's space agency JAXA. It consists of a GPM core observatory satellite and a constellation of cooperating probes. As...
The heat is on for Sentinel-3B
Jun 02, 2017 (ESA)
The Sentinel-3 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation to give optimum global coverage and data delivery for Europe's environmental monitoring Cope...
exactEarth Launches Revolutionary Global Real-Time Maritime Tracking and Information Service
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
This revolutionary capability is expected to enable a wide variety of new service capabilities for the global maritime community and to contribute strongly over...
NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Begins Public Data Release
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The production and distribution is timed to coincide with the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. CYGNSS - a constellation of eight microsatel...
NOAA's newest geostationary satellite will be positioned as GOES-East this fall
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
"As a Florida resident, I am particularly proud of the important work NOAA does in weather forecasting and hurricane prediction," said U.S. Secretary of Commerc...
SES-14 integrates NASA ultraviolet space spectrograph
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
GOLD will employ an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph to measure densities and temperatures in the Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere in response to Sun-Earth i...
Earth is a jewel, says astronaut after six months away
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
While on terra firma politicians argued over a pact to preserve Earth's climate for future generations of humans, the Frenchman had six months to contemplate th...
Supercomputing helps researchers understand Earth's interior
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
While most textbooks demonstrate the outer surface of the Earth as the crust, the next inner level as the mantle, and then the most inner layer as the core, Liu...
AU-EU joint space-based initiative calls for proposals
May 25, 2017 (XNA)
At a ceremony held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, the two institutions said it is an open invitation for eligible institutions across Africa to apply for th...
Russia aims for 15 remote sensing satellites in orbit by 2020
May 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
The number of operating Russian remote sensing satellites orbiting the Earth will reach 15 by 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. Currently, ...
GSLV to launch US-India NISAR EO Satellite
May 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
Weighing 2,200 kilogram, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (abbreviated as NISAR) is the world's most expensive earth imaging satellite. It has been develo...
NASA's CPEX tackles a weather fundamental
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
Called the Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX), the campaign is using NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory outfitted with five complementary research instruments ...
Earth's atmosphere more chemically reactive in cold climates
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
The main molecules responsible for breaking down all these emissions are called oxidants. The oxygen-containing molecules, mainly ozone and hydrogen-based deter...
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