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NOAA's GOES-S Satellite in Thermal Vacuum Testing
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
The most complicated and challenging test is thermal vacuum where a satellite experiences four cycles of extreme cold to extreme heat in a giant vacuum chamber....
Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
However, a new paper by an international team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) investigates an alternative possibilit...
Raytheon speeds delivery and secures satellite weather data
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
The upgrade accelerates data processing and dissemination, improves system availability and provides cybersecurity protection of the data and the CGS in support...
'Detergent' Molecules May Drive Recent Methane Changes
Apr 18, 2017 (JPL)
The second most important human-produced greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, methane is colorless, odorless and can be hard to track. The gas has a wide range ...
New Full-hemisphere Views of Earth at Night
Apr 17, 2017 (SPX)
In the years since the 2011 launch of the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, a research team led by Earth scientist Miguel Rom...
NASA's High-Altitude Plane Takes to the Sky for GOES-16 Field Campaign
Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)
Why? Because, to put it simply, GOES-16's data has to be as well-calibrated and accurate as possible-lives depend on it. "Are you seeing what I am seeing?" Flyi...
Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth
Apr 12, 2017 (JPL)
A team of researchers from Denmark, the United States and Canada made the discovery while studying a solar storm that reached Earth on Feb. 19, 2014. The storm ...
Scientists link California droughts and floods to distinctive atmospheric waves
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year's unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with...
Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to 10 meters
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the EU North State project has developed a new method of using satellite images to evaluate the forest carbon b...
New map reveals Earth's magnetic field in high resolution
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
"Magnetic fields have been measured in space by satellites for the last 50 years, but it is the measurement of magnetic 'gradients' from the three Swarm satelli...
As CO2 levels increase, airplane rides get bumpier
Apr 06, 2017 (UPI)
Climate change has a variety of unexpected consequences. The latest: airplane turbulence. Warmer air and higher concentrations of CO2 are affecting the movement...
Spaceflight Industries Reveals BlackSky Spectra
Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)
Spaceflight Industries has launched BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new im...
Exploring ocean waters to characterize atmospheric aerosols
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Aerosols are collections of fine particles, either biological or of other types, in suspension in a gaseous medium. They play a major role in cloud formation an...
How Britain became an island
Apr 04, 2017 (AFP)
A giant waterfall tens of kilometres (miles) wide broke down a ridge which connected modern-day England to mainland Europe nearly half a million years ago, unle...
Monitoring pollen using an aircraft
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Plant pollen and fungal spores can be found at variable heights in the air, even at elevations up to 2000 meters. This is the conclusion of a report by research...
Japan counts down to cherry blossom fever
Apr 01, 2017 (AFP)
Japan's cherry blossom season kicks off boozy parties across the country and draws tourists from far and wide, but the annual coming-of-spring ritual isn't offi...
Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain - extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an inter...
NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries...
Night lights, big data
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
When the Earth is dark, human activity sparkles across the globe. As seen from space, night-time lights tell a story about how we live, correlating to everythin...
Northern oceans pumped CO2 into the atmosphere
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
At the same time the pH of the surface waters in these oceans decreased, making them more acidic. Both of these findings imply changes in ocean circulation and ...
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