EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Scientists report breakthrough in detecting methane

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Methane is one hot gas. It's a prominent component of natural gas, an important atmospheric gas, and a product of both biology and chemical reactions. Its prese...

Space technology investigates large-scale changes to Africa's climate

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

An international research team led by the University of Leicester has mapped the entire African continent south of the Sahara for geographical changes - and has...

3-D imaging reveals hidden forces behind clogs, jams, avalanches, earthquakes

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Pick up a handful of sand, and it flows through your fingers like a liquid. But when you walk on the beach, the sand supports your weight like a solid. What hap...

New detector sniffs out origins of methane

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth's atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from...

High-Tech UCF Sensor Payload Headed for Stratosphere

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

NASA and a UCF physics professor plan to launch a high-altitude balloon on Sunday to test a high-tech payload that may one day be used to detect life on other p...

A change in thought on Earth's core formation

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Violent collisions between the growing Earth and other objects in the solar system generated significant amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study by LLNL...

Africa, From a CATS Point of View

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

From Saharan dust storms to icy clouds to smoke on the opposite side of the continent, the first image from NASA's newest cloud- and aerosol-measuring instrumen...

New NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Completes Key Milestone

Mar 03, 2015 (JPL)

Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, today sent commands to unfurl the massive 20-foot-wide (6-meter) reflector ante...

3-D Views of February Snow Storms from GPM

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured a 3-D image of a winter storm on Feb. 17, 2015, that left 6 to 12 inches of snow over much ...

India to Soon Have Better Earth Observation Satellites

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

India will soon have satellites with improved earth observation capability, said space agency chief A.S.Kiran Kumar in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. "The futu...

New NASA Earth Missions Expand View of Home Planet

Feb 27, 2015 (JPL)

Four new NASA Earth-observing missions are collecting data from space - with a fifth newly in orbit - after the busiest year of NASA Earth science launches in m...

NASA releases first precipitation map from GPM mission

Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)

Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. Like a lead violin tuning an orchestra, the GPM Core Observ...

MMS ready for launch to study Earth's magnetic environment

Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)

Final preparations are underway for the launch of NASA's quartet of Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, which constitute the first space mission dedicat...

California Landscape is Mix of Green and Brown

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

California just finished its driest year on record and is now in its fourth year of drought. The effects have been reflected by the landscape in many ways, from...

Felling of tropical trees has soared, satellite shows, not slowed

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

The rate at which tropical forests were cut, burned or otherwise lost from the 1990s through the 2000s accelerated by 62 percent, according to a new study which...

Satellite gearing up to take EPIC pictures of Earth

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is on its way to do something epic. NOAA's spacecraft, sent to monitor space weather, will use its Earth P...

Via laser into the past of the oceans

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

Next to global warming, ocean acidification is currently considered as the second major carbon dioxide problem. With the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the...

NASA snaps picture of Eastern US in a record-breaking 'freezer'

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cov...

ESA's Biomass satellite goes ahead

Feb 20, 2015 (ESA)

Following the initial selection in 2013 for Biomass to become ESA's seventh Earth Explorer mission and the completion of preparatory activities, ESA Member Stat...

Satellites help predict outbreaks of disease

Feb 16, 2015 (AFP)

Satellites can help scientists follow parasites and viruses, and in some cases predict months ahead of time an outbreak of dengue fever or malaria, researchers ...