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Newly proposed reference datasets improve weather satellite data quality

Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)

"Traffic and weather, together on the hour!" blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of sat...

Are we exploring in the wrong direction

Jan 10, 2017 (Sputnik)

The discovery of vast seas of water beneath the earth's crust opens up interesting new fields of research, and also poses a somewhat philosophical question: sho...

Astronomers consider how climate change mitigation may impact astronomy

Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)

The opening day of the 229th AAS meeting featured a special panel session, entitled "Geoengineering the Atmosphere to Fight Climate Change: Should Astronomers W...

Watching the Upper Atmosphere for 15 Years and Counting

Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)

NASA's TIMED mission - short for Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics - yielded a batch of new discoveries to end its 15th year in orbit...

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere's oxygen?

Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)

For the development of animals, nothing - with the exception of DNA - may be more important than oxygen in the atmosphere. Oxygen enables the chemical reactions...

Scientists use satellites to spot Svalbard avalanches

Jan 04, 2017 (UPI)

The Arctic Ocean's mild, rainy autumn has become a mild and rainy winter, triggering avalanches in Svalbard, an archipelago north of mainland Norway. The lack o...

Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly of NOAA's GOES-S Weather Satellite

Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has completed assembly of NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite and is now beginning critical mechanical and environmental testing of the spacecraft. ...

China launches new weather satellite Fengyun-4

Jan 01, 2017 (Sputnik)

China launched a new-generation meteorological satellite, the country's first quantitative remote-sensing satellite in high orbit, Chinese media reported Wednes...

Switzerland sees driest December in 150 years

Dec 31, 2016 (AFP)

Switzerland has just experienced its driest December in more than 150 years and one of its driest months on record, meteorologists said Saturday. With an averag...

There's a jet stream in our core

Dec 29, 2016 (ESA)

We would normally associate jet streams with the weather but, thanks to ESA's magnetic field mission, scientists have discovered a jet stream deep below Earth's...

China launches TanSat to study atmospheric carbon dioxide processes

Dec 28, 2016 (SPX)

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the major greenhouse gases, and causes great concern due to the rapid increase in its atmospheric concentrations. China launched ...

exactEarth to study Small Vessel Tracking for UK Space Agency

Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)

exactEarth has been awarded a 1.1 million pound grant from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) under its 'International Partnerships Programme' (IPP). The IPP funding wi...

Neutron diffraction probes forms of carbon dioxide in extreme environments

Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)

Carbon dioxide is a key component in the carbon cycle of Earth, both in the atmosphere and in the mantle, or hot layer under Earth's crust. Studies of high pres...

NOAA's GOES-S Satellite Undergoing Environmental Testing

Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)

Following the successful launch of GOES-R, renamed GOES-16 upon reaching geostationary orbit, progress continues on development of the GOES-S spacecraft. The Ge...

Airbus DS ships payload module for MetOp-C for final assembly

Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has sent the MetOp-C payload module, the 'brain' for Europe's next polar-orbiting weather sa...

China launches carbon dioxide monitoring satellite

Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)

China on Thursday launched a satellite to monitor carbon dioxide levels, state media said, making the Asian giant the third country to track the potent contribu...

Space-based lidar shines new light on plankton

Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)

A space-based sensor that can "see" through fog, clouds and darkness has given scientists their first continuous look at the boom-bust cycles that drive polar p...

Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth's interface to space

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from NASA and three universities have presented new discoveries about the way heat and energy move and manifest in the ionosphere, a region of Earth'...

Study of olivine provides new data for measuring earth's surface

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of v...

Researchers dial in to 'thermostat' in Earth's upper atmosphere

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found the mechanism behind the sudden onset of a "natural thermostat" in Earth's upper atmosphere that dram...