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In Atmospheric River Storms, Wind Is a Risk, Too
Feb 22, 2017 (JPL)
Atmospheric river storms are hailed as drought-busters when they bring needed rain and snow, but they have a well-known dark side: damaging floods. A new NASA s...
Airbus to develop payload for first Franco-German Earth observation satellite
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to develop and build all components of the German ...
Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space
Feb 17, 2017 (ESA)
Going to space is never routine, and Sentinel-2 mission controllers are leaving nothing to chance as they prepare for the critical days following next month's l...
NASA to launch sequel to successful Lightning Study Mission
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
A hit Hollywood film often leads to a sequel. Sometimes those movies do well, but rarely will they eclipse the original. Undaunted by those odds, NASA is set to...
Earth Science on the Space Station continues to grow
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
The number of instruments on the International Space Station dedicated to observing Earth to increase our understanding of our home planet continues to grow. Tw...
Ancient Judea jars reveal earth's magnetic field is fluctuating, not diminishing
Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)
Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagneti...
New data from NOAA GOES-16's instrument suite
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
The new Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS) instrument onboard NOAA's GOES-16 is working and successfully sending data back to Earth. A plot from SEISS data...
Beijing MST Radar detection of the lower, middle and upper atmosphere
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Beijing MST (Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere) Radar is one of the largest facilities within the Chinese Meridian Project (a chain of diverse ground-based re...
HSE experts investigate how order emerges from chaos
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Igor Kolokolov and Vladimir Lebedev, scientific experts from HSE's Faculty of Physics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sci...
Human effects on Earth are 170 times greater than natural forces
Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists at the Australian National University have come up with a simple equation to calculate the impact of human forces on planet Earth. The numbers sugges...
Blue jets studied from Space Station
Feb 10, 2017 (ESA)
For years, their existence has been debated: elusive electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere that sport names such as red sprites, blue jets, pixies and e...
NASA spacecraft prepares to fly to new heights
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
On Feb. 9, 2017, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, known as MMS, began a three-month long journey into a new orbit. MMS flies in a highly elliptical orb...
SpaceKnow raises $4 Million in Series A funding
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
SpaceKnow has announced the company has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by BlueYard Capital and previously existing investor Reflex Capital. This in...
Mobile phone and satellite data to map poverty
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
An international team has, for the first time, developed a way of combining anonymised data from mobile phones and satellite imagery data to create high resolut...
NASA Langley Ozone Sensor Set for Launch to Space Station
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
Brooke Thornton has devoted eight years to a project that aims to check on the atmospheric health of the Earth. Needless to say, when NASA's Stratospheric Aeros...
An application of astronomy to save endangered species
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
Four centuries ago, Galileo began a revolution by pointing his telescope at the sky. Now a multidisciplinary team of astrophysicists and ecologists has reversed...
Why the Earth's magnetic poles could be about to swap places
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field - protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles awa...
NASA Taking Stock of Phytoplankton Populations in the Pacific
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
The microscopic size of phytoplankton, the plant-like organisms that live in the sunlit upper ocean, belies their importance in the global environment. They pro...
Subscale Glider Could Assist in Weather Studies, Prediction
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
More accurate, immediate and economical information on severe weather phenomenon like hurricanes could one day be available thanks to the Weather Hazard Alert a...
NASA Makes an EPIC Update to Website for Daily Earth Pics
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imager...
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