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Japan launches new satellite to survey disasters
May 24, 2014 (AFP)
Japan successfully launched a new mapping satellite on Saturday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rainforests. The...
Airbus partners with BAE for radar satellite imagery
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space and BAE Systems have launched a strategic alliance to produce, market and sell innovative geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and...
The Making of NASA's Global Selfie: 100+ Countries, Thousands of Photos
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
On Earth Day this year, NASA asked people all around the world a simple question - "Where are you on Earth Right Now?" We asked people to answer the question on...
Water mission boosts food security
May 23, 2014 (ESA)
ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission has gone beyond its original scientific brief of delivering critical information for understanding the water cycl...
New Japan satellite to survey disasters, rain forests
May 21, 2014 (AFP)
Japan is scheduled to launch a new mapping satellite on Saturday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rain forests. T...
MMS Narrated Orbit Viz: Unlocking The Secrets of Magnetic Reconnection
May 21, 2014 (SPX)
In March 2015, NASA will launch four identical spacecraft to study how magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect, explosively releasing energy - a pro...
Earth Science Applications Travelogue: Maury Estes
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
When you think about the beneficiaries of NASA Earth observations, does the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) come to mind? It should! To find more about ...
GOES-R Propulsion and System Modules Delivered
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
This is a photo of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R) satellite propulsion module (left) and system module (right) at Lo...
Swarm's precise sense of magnetism
May 12, 2014 (ESA)
Although they were launched only five months ago, ESA's trio of Swarm satellites are already delivering results with a precision that took earlier missions 10 y...
Experts demonstrate versatility of Sentinel-1
May 12, 2014 (ESA)
From climate change monitoring to supporting humanitarian aid and crisis situations, early data applications from the month-old Sentinel-1A satellite show how t...
The first globally complete glacier inventory has been created
May 08, 2014 (SPX)
Thanks to the efforts of an international group of scientists - one of them is Tobias Bolch from Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany - who have mapped all o...
How Does Your Garden Glow? NASA's OCO-2 Seeks Answer
May 07, 2014 (JPL)
Science is full of serendipity -- moments when discoveries happen by chance or accident while researchers are looking for something else. For example, penicilli...
Seeing the bedrock through the trees
May 06, 2014 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley, geologist William Dietrich pioneered the application of airborne LIDAR - light detection and ranging - to map mountainous te...
Kazakhstan's First Earth Observation Satellite to Orbit
May 06, 2014 (SPX)
Arianespace is on track for a record launch performance in 2014 following Tuesday night's Vega mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana, which successfully o...
NASA-CNES Proceed on Surface Water and Ocean Mission
May 06, 2014 (SPX)
NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly build, launch and operate a spacecraft to conduct the first-ev...
NASA Goddard to Bring Satellite Data to African Agriculture
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
From hundreds of miles in orbit, NASA satellites can measure how much rain falls in Niger or detect plant health in Mali. But on the ground, many African farmer...
Satellite Movie Shows US Tornado Outbreak from Space
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite that shows the development and movement of the weathe...
UV-radiation data to help ecological research
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Many research projects study the effects of temperature and precipitation on the global distribution of plant and animal species. However, an important componen...
When next Earth's magnetic field reverse begins and what consequences for mankind will it have?
Apr 29, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The University of Maryland possesses the world's largest spinning model of the Earth's interior. It is a stainless steel sphere ten feet in diameter that rapidl...
Ball Aerospace Moving Ahead on TEMPO and GEMS Air Quality Sensors
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
Two powerful Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. air quality sensors are on their way to providing future environmental monitoring to support the quality of l...
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