EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Space-eye-view could help stop global wildlife decline

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodive...

Satellites peer into rock 50 miles beneath Tibetan Plateau

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

Gravity data captured by satellite has allowed researchers to take a closer look at the geology deep beneath the Tibetan Plateau. The analysis, published in the...

Google lets users map their steps

Jul 22, 2015 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday began letting smartphone users automatically map where they have been. A "Your Timeline" feature being added to Google Maps lets users see h...

Satellite imagery reveals Pilanesberg ring dike complex

Jul 22, 2015 (UPI)

South Africa is home to many natural wonders, but perhaps its least appreciated is the nation's alkaline ring dike complex in Pilanesberg National Park -- the l...

NASA Satellite Camera Provides EPIC View of Earth

Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)

A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles awa...

Discovery of zebra stripes in space resolves 50-year mystery

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to study the Earth's atmosphere, magnetosphere and the space between Earth and the moon. Using observations from thos...

China-Brazil earth resources satellite put into operation

Jul 15, 2015 (XNA)

An earth observation satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil was put into operation on Tuesday. The China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite-04 (CBERS-04) ...

India Launches EO Constellation for UK-China Project

Jul 11, 2015 (Sputnik)

India haslaunched five UK satellites, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Friday. The launch took place at 9:58 p.m. local time (16:28 GMT) from the ...

NASA data shows surfer-shaped waves in near-Earth space

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

The universe overflows with repeating patterns. From the smallest cells to the largest galaxies, scientists are often rewarded by observing similar patterns in ...

Near-Earth space hosts Kelvin-Helmholtz waves

Jul 08, 2015 (UPI)

Kelvin-Helmholtz waves are everywhere. They're at the beach, deep below the ocean surface, in the clouds -- and also in space. Researchers have located the wave...

Estimating Earth's last pole reversal using radiometric dating

Jul 08, 2015 (SPX)

The Earth's magnetic field periodically reverses such that the north magnetic pole becomes the south magnetic pole. The latest reversal is called by geologists ...

Oregon experiments open window on landscape formation

Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)

University of Oregon geologists have seen ridges and valleys form in real time and - even though the work was a fast-forwarded operation done in a laboratory se...

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

Jul 01, 2015 (ESA)

Last night marked the end of Sentinel-2A's first three days in space, which saw teams on the ground working around the clock to ensure the spacecraft is ready f...

Beijing Quadrupled in Size in a Decade

Jun 28, 2015 (JPL)

A new study by scientists using data from NASA's QuikScat satellite has demonstrated a novel technique to quantify urban growth based on observed changes in phy...

A New Era of Space Collaboration between Australia and US

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

On June 18, 2015 in Canberra, Australia, the U.S. Geological Survey and Geoscience Australia signed a comprehensive new partnership to maximize land remote sens...

Magnetic complexity begins to untangle

Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)

After a year in orbit, the three Swarm satellites have provided a first glimpse inside Earth and started to shed new light on the dynamics of the upper atmosphe...

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)

The ESA-developed Sentinel satellite - Sentinel-2A - has been launched, adding a high-resolution optical imaging capability to the European Union Copernicus env...

Europe launches next phase of hi-tech Earth satellites

Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the second phase of a 4.3-billion-euro ($4.91-billion) programme to deploy new-generation satellites to monitor env...

International Spacecraft Carrying NASA's Aquarius Instrument Ends Operations

Jun 22, 2015 (JPL)

An international Earth-observing mission launched in 2011 to study the salinity of the ocean surface ended June 8 when an essential part of the power and attitu...

New research shows Earth's core contains 90 percent of Earth's sulfur

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

So perhaps there is some truth in the old legends of the underworld reeking of brimstone (or sulphur, as it is now called)? New research confirms that the Earth...