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Jason-3 Begins Mapping Oceans, Sees Ongoing El Nino

Mar 18, 2016 (JPL)

Jason-3, a new U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation, has produced its first complete science map of global sea surface height, c...

Russia Prepared to Offer Launch Options for Morocco's Satellite

Mar 18, 2016 (Sputnik)

The Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday that it was prepared to propose launch options for Morocco's remote earth sensing satellite if the African cou...

Improving farm and water management with DMC constellation

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

In 2011, eLEAF received funding from the Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Hortgro and ESA to start the FruitLook project. The purpose of this project is ...

Satellites to help check unauthorised construction at monuments

Mar 16, 2016 (IANS)

The National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO has signed an agreement with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for preparing satellite-based maps to help chec...

Satellites and shipwrecks

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

An estimated 3 million shipwrecks are scattered across the planet's oceans. Most maritime mishaps take place close to shore where hazards to navigation - such a...

Sentinel-3A continues to impress

Mar 14, 2016 (ESA)

The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what's in store for Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring ef...

New NASA Instruments to Study Air Pollution, Cyclones

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, that will put new ...

Eyeing Climate Change, Satellites Provide Missing Information

Mar 13, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem found a way to measure missing critical information ne...

Virtual time machine of Earth's geology now in the cloud

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

How did Madagascar once slot next to India? Where was Australia a billion years ago? Cloud-based virtual globes developed by a team led by University of Sydney ...

The ancient rotation of the Iberian Peninsula left a magnetic trace

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

The volcanic rock found in the south of Leon (Spain) experienced a rotation of almost 60+ 300 million years ago, an example of what could have occurred across t...

First views of Earth from Sentinel-3A

Mar 08, 2016 (ESA)

Just two weeks after launch, the latest Sentinel satellite has offered a taster of what it will provide for the EU's Copernicus programme. Sentinel-3A's very fi...

Sentinel-3A rides the waves

Mar 07, 2016 (ESA)

Following the first impressive images from Sentinel-3A, this latest Copernicus satellite is now showing us how another of its instruments, an altimeter, will tr...

NASA Data Used to Track Groundwater in Pakistan

Mar 01, 2016 (JPL)

The vast farmlands of Pakistan - a country with an economy based on agriculture - rely on one of the largest continuous irrigation systems in the world. Farmers...

Nonstop LEOP full stop

Feb 26, 2016 (ESA)

Working around the clock, mission teams have brought Sentinel-3A through the critical 'launch and early orbit phase' in just 49 hours, much earlier than planned...

Third Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus

Feb 16, 2016 (ESA)

The third ESA-developed satellite carrying four Earth-observing instruments was launched today, ready to provide a 'bigger picture' for Europe's Copernicus envi...

Sentinel-3A poised for liftoff

Feb 13, 2016 (ESA)

With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite for Copernicus is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket will be...

New Satellite-Based Maps to Aid in Climate Forecasts

Feb 12, 2016 (JPL)

New, detailed maps of the world's natural landscapes created using NASA satellite data could help scientists better predict the impacts of future climate change...

Mission teams prepare for critical days

Feb 07, 2016 (ESA)

Moments after Sentinel-3A separates from its rocket, a team of European mission control specialists will assume control, shepherding the new spacecraft through ...

Sentinel-3A fully tanked

Feb 07, 2016 (ESA)

With the launch of Sentinel-3A confirmed for 16 February, preparations for liftoff are charging full speed ahead. The tricky task of fuelling the satellite has ...

China releases images captured by HD earth observation satellite

Feb 05, 2016 (XNA)

China released first images captured by the nation's most sophisticated observation satellite Gaofen-4 on Wednesday, including one showing the capital city Beij...