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Global rainfall satellites require massive overhaul

Feb 13, 2015 (SPX)

Circling hundreds of miles above Earth, weather satellites are working round-the-clock to provide rainfall data that are key to a complex system of global flood...

ORCA Prototype Ready for the Open Ocean

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Its name refers to one of the biggest animals in the sea, but ORCA, the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment instrument, will be observing the smallest. If se...

NASA Study Shows Global Sea Ice Diminishing, Despite Antarctic Gains

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new NASA study finds. As a whole, the planet has b...

Mud Matters

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Water may be the most influential substance on Earth. It covers more than 70% of our planet's surface, plays a key role in weather and climate, and nurtures lif...

North Korea says 'Flashy Lights not Essence of Society'

Feb 10, 2015 (Sputnik)

An editorial in North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun has responded to jibes the country has received over famous NASA satellite imagery showing a lack of nightt...

Geologists unlock mysteries of the planet's inner core

Feb 10, 2015 (SPX)

Seismic waves are helping scientists to plumb the world's deepest mystery: the planet's inner core. Thanks to a novel application of earthquake-reading technolo...

NASA Aircraft, Spacecraft Aid Atmospheric River Study

Feb 09, 2015 (JPL)

NASA is part of CalWater 2015, a massive research effort to study atmospheric rivers this month. Atmospheric rivers are flows of tropical moisture across the Pa...

Plant power from above

Feb 09, 2015 (ESA)

Field experiments have shown how ESA's potential FLEX mission could identify vegetation that is suffering degrees of stress invisible to the naked eye. The Fluo...

DigitalGlobe's Geospatial Big Data Platform Enabling New Commercial Solutions

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

DigitalGlobe, Inc. (DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery and geospatial solutions, today announced an agreement to provide another i...

Q&A on NOAA's DSCOVR Mission

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 8 at 6:10 p.m. EDT and is a joint mission with NASA and...

Spire unveils nanosatellite to make weather predictable to navigate

Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)

Spire has unveiled the world's first network of commercial satellites to provide unparalleled insight into weather and climate changes. The satellites, which ar...

New NASA SMAP satellite already measuring surface water

Feb 02, 2015 (UPI)

NASA successfully launched it's latest satellite on Saturday, the newest member of the agency's fleet of satellites that observe Earth and its many geologic and...

Satellites can improve regional air quality forecasting

Feb 01, 2015 (SPX)

Satellites planned for launch during the next several years may have an expanded role: Forecasting air-quality worldwide. That's the view of University of Iowa ...

NASA Launches Groundbreaking Soil Moisture Mapping Satellite

Jan 31, 2015 (SPX)

Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Supports ULA Delta II Launch of Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite for NASA Sacramento, CA - Aerojet Rocketdyne has helped pro...

NASA's New Radiometer Tunes In to Soil's Frequency

Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)

Whether it's a parched field or a boggy marsh, the ground naturally emits microwave energy. Not much energy - but enough that NASA's newest, more technologicall...

NASA's SMAP Earth Mission Awaits Launch

Jan 29, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, which will produce the highest-resolution and most accurate maps of soil moisture ever obtained from spa...

Building a Better Weather Forecast? SMAP May Help

Jan 29, 2015 (JPL)

If you were trying to forecast tomorrow's weather, you would probably look up at the sky rather than down at the ground. But if you live in the U.S. Midwest or ...

SMAP Will Track a Tiny Cog That Keeps Cycles Spinning

Jan 28, 2015 (JPL)

When you open the back of a fine watch, you see layer upon layer of spinning wheels linked by interlocking cogs, screws and wires. Some of the cogs are so tiny ...

NASA Data Peers into Greenland's Ice Sheet

Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first-ever comprehensive map o...

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

Jan 28, 2015 (ESA)

Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites. Located on Norway's Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard...