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Research journey to the center of the Earth
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers in Japan say they may be one step closer to solving the mystery at the core of the Earth. It has long been established that approximately 85 percent...
Wind satellite heads for final testing
Jan 31, 2017 (ESA)
The road to realising ESA's Aeolus mission may have been long and bumpy, but developing novel space technology is, by its very nature, challenging. With the sat...
NASA Airborne Mission Chases Air Pollution Through the Seasons
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Earth is a planet that breathes with the seasons. In winter months atmospheric gases and air pollution accumulate, waiting dormant until spring and summer bring...
NASA measures 'dust on snow' to help manage Colorado River Basin water supplies
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
When Michelle Stokes and Stacie Bender look out across the snow-capped mountains of Utah and Colorado, they see more than just a majestic landscape. They see mi...
How satellite data changed chimpanzee conservation efforts
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Approximately 345,000 or fewer chimpanzees remain in the wild, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a substantial decline from t...
Doubt over Everest's true height spurs fresh expedition
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists will take the tape measure to Mount Everest to determine whether a massive earthquake in Nepal really did knock an inch off the world's tallest peak....
New inverse algorithm for CO2 retrieval from satellite observations
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a primary greenhouse gas that has been persistently increasing over the past few decades. It is a major driver of regional a...
NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite Sends First Images to Earth
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA's next-generation of geostationary satellites, has sent the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager...
China's hi-res SAR imaging satellite put into use
Jan 24, 2017 (XNA)
China's first high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite has passed all its in-orbit tests and is now operational, according to the State Administ...
World's First Weather-Cracking Wind Satellite Aeolus to Improve Future Forecasts
Jan 20, 2017 (Sputnik)
A team of scientists at the Airbus Defense and Space Center in the UK, have bid farewell to a satellite this week, which will allow for more accurate weather pr...
NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Alaskan Volcanic Eruption Wrapped in White
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
When NASA's Terra satellite passed over Alaska's erupting Bogoslof Volcano the MODIS instrument aboard captured an image of a large ash plume surrounded by clou...
China to launch electromagnetic monitoring satellite for earthquake study
Jan 19, 2017 (XNA)
China will launch a satellite this year to gather electromagnetic data that may be used in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes. According to China's earthqua...
Study tracks 'memory' of soil moisture
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth's landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet's water - less than one-thousandth of a percent. Yet b...
exactEarth reports initial launch for its second generation real-time constellation
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
exactEarth Ltd. reports the successful launch of four hosted payloads for its next generation constellation, exactView RT powered by Harris. Launched aboard an ...
SAGE III to Provide Highly Accurate Measurements of Atmospheric Gases
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
The International Space Station (ISS) will soon get an important tool to investigate the Earth's upper atmosphere capable of conducting highly accurate measurem...
NASA plans another busy year for earth science fieldwork
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
NASA scientists are crisscrossing the globe in 2017 - from a Hawaiian volcano to Colorado mountain tops and west Pacific islands - to investigate critical scien...
Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start
Jan 13, 2017 (ESA)
Some of us may be easing ourselves gently into the New Year, but for the team readying Sentinel-2B for liftoff on 7 March it's full steam ahead. On 5 January, t...
China receives imagery from high-resolution remote sensing satellites
Jan 13, 2017 (XNA)
China has received images from a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites launched in late December last year, the China Aerospace Science an...
NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
For centuries drought has come and gone across northern sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, water shortages have been most severe in the Sahel-a band of semi-a...
First colour image for joint UK and Algerian CubeSat
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
AlSat Nano, a UK-Algeria CubeSat mission, has captured its first full colour image following its launch in September 2016. The image was taken by the Open Unive...
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