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NASA Mission Uncovers Dance of Electrons in Space
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission study the electrons' dynamics to better understand their behavior. A new study, published in J...
Extreme weather has greater impact on nature than expected
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
Extremes, outliers, cataclysms. As a field of biological research it's still in its infancy, but interest in the impact of extreme weather and climate events on...
SFL signs contract with Dubai to build environmental monitoring satellite
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
SFL's Next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) platform technology, which incorporates high-performance ground target tracking capability, is a k...
First space-based sodium LIRDAR will study poorly understood Mesosphere
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
Scientist Diego Janches and laser experts Mike Krainak and Tony Yu, all of whom work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are leading a...
Researchers apply data science to better predict effect of weather and other conditions
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Using data science to predict the deterioration of such materials could lead to finding new ways to extend their lifetime, the researchers say. "This makes the ...
How satellite data led to a breakthrough for Lake Erie toxic algal blooms
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Using data from NASA's Landsat 5 instrument, the researchers generated new estimates of historical algal blooms in Lake Erie, more than doubling the number of y...
Ice Particles in Earth's Atmosphere Create Bright Flashes Seen from Space
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
"The source of the flashes is definitely not on the ground," said Alexander Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gr...
In measuring gas exchange between water and air, size matters
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
A new Yale-led study evaluated how the size of ponds and lakes affects gas exchange rates, which may have implications for carbon emissions and global climate c...
NASA team pursues blobs and bubbles with new PetitSat mission
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
A team of NASA scientists and engineers, led by Jeffrey Klenzing and Sarah Jones, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recen...
Is Climate Changing Cloud Heights? Too Soon to Say
May 09, 2017 (JPL)
Clouds are both Earth's cooling sunshade and its insulating blanket. Currently their cooling effect prevails globally. But as Earth warms, the characteristics o...
exactEarth Announces Two-Year $1.45 Million Commercial Customer Renewal
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
The Agreement is valued at a significant annual price increase as compared to the previous multi-year contract. The Agreement also contains options to extend th...
AIRS: 15 Years of Seeing What's in the Air
May 05, 2017 (JPL)
Besides contributing to better forecasts, AIRS maps greenhouse gases, tracks volcanic emissions and smoke from wildfires, measures noxious compounds like ammoni...
Orbital Insight invests $50M in satellite and drone imagery analysis business
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
This funding firmly positions Orbital Insight in the vanguard of geospatial analytics. With the imminent arrival of daily satellite imagery of the entire planet...
GRACE-FO satellites get an earful
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
In four test cycles, the satellites in their flight position were subjected to a sound impact of nearly 140 decibels (dB). In comparison, a pneumatic drill prod...
NASA to measure greenhouse gases over the mid-Atlantic region
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The airborne campaign, called the Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment, or CARAFE, could help scientists better understand the exchange process, also known as flux, ...
India's Space Agency Saves Over US$ 2 Billion per Year for the Country
May 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
Speaking at the Osmania University, Hyderabad on 'India in Space', ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said the space agency is issuing cyclone alerts to fishermen a...
Beautiful Bering Strait image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite
Apr 28, 2017 (UPI)
The image was captured on March 26 and shared online on April 28. The Sentinel-3A is an Earth observation satellite launched as part of the Copernicus mission b...
Heavy precipitation speeds carbon exchange in tropics
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics - where much of global forest productivity occur...
NASA instrument looks sky high and to the future
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the instrument tracks levels of methane and carbon dioxide, two gases crucial f...
When Swarm met Steve
Apr 24, 2017 (ESA)
While the shimmering, eerie, light display of auroras might be beautiful and captivating, they are also a visual reminder that Earth is connected electrically t...
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