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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps hires view of Earth rising
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft's vantage point in orbit around the moon. "The image is s...
Earth-i distributes image from space of UK astronaut's launch
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Earth-i, the British innovative distributor of imaging and data services from the DMC3 / TripleSat satellite constellation, has shared the first orbital image o...
NASA studies high clouds, Saharan dust from EPIC view
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
From a dusty atmosphere stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of E...
PeruSAT-1 takes shape in Airbus Defence and Space's cleanrooms
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
PeruSAT-1, a future very high resolution Earth observation satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space for CONIDA, the Peruvian Space Agency, is taking shape wi...
The Radar Vision Goes On - Two More Sentinel-1 Satellites
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second-largest space company, has signed a contract worth euro 143 million with Thales Alenia Space to build two further s...
New NASA Satellite Maps Show Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions...
GOES-R: Launching in October 2016
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Series satellite-R (GOES-R) will now be launched in October 2016. Earlier this year, NOAA, NASA and Lockheed Mart...
The days are getting longer
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists are studying past changes in sea level in order to make accurate future predictions of this consequence of climate change, and they're looking down t...
NASA spots phytoplankton bloom in North Atlantic
Dec 11, 2015 (UPI)
A mass of phytoplankton recently appeared near the ocean surface in the North Atlantic, growing large enough to be seen from space. Earlier this fall, the Visib...
Ames and Hera Systems Execute Licensing Agreement
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Ames Research Center and Hera Systems have announced that they have executed a licensing agreement on two pending patents for the Cost Optimized Test of ...
Is That a Forest? That Depends on How You Define It
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
After comparing eight satellite-derived global maps, researchers found that measurements of forest cover vary widely-as much as 6 percent of Earth's land area, ...
Timelapse from space reveals glacier in motion
Nov 27, 2015 (ESA)
Animations that compress 25 years of satellite images into just one second reveal the complex behaviour and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range in ...
NASA plans twin sounding rocket launches over Norway this winter
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
This winter, two sounding rockets will launch through the aurora borealis over Norway to study how particles move in a region near the North Pole where Earth's ...
Earth's magnetic field is not about to flip
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
The intensity of earth's magnetic field has been weakening in the last couple of hundred years, leading some scientists to think that its polarity might be abou...
Sentinel-3A on its way
Nov 24, 2015 (ESA)
The latest satellite for the European Commission's Copernicus environmental programme has left France bound for the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and launch la...
New satellite to measure plant health
Nov 22, 2015 (ESA)
ESA plans to track the health of the world's vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphe...
RippleNami helps visualize change in Africa with its customizable mapping platform
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
RippleNami, a cloud-based visualization platform, has announced that Nuru International, a nonprofit working to end extreme poverty in remote rural areas, has a...
RapidScat Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
Nov 09, 2015 (JPL)
Where do predictions for regional weather patterns come from? For one source, look to the ocean. About 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered in oceans, and c...
NASA to fly, sail north to study plankton-climate change connection
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
NASA begins a five-year study this month of the annual cycle of phytoplankton and the impact that small airborne particles emitted from the ocean have on the cl...
Excitement Grows as NASA Carbon Sleuth Begins Year Two
Nov 03, 2015 (JPL)
Scientists busy poring over more than a year of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission are seeing patterns emerge as they seek answers t...
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