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EO May Increase Survival Of 'Uncontacted' Tribes
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Lowland South America, including the Amazon Basin, harbors most of the last indigenous societies that have limited contact with the outside world. Studying thes...
Kazakh EO satellite to be launched into orbit
Apr 24, 2014 (AFP)
Kazakhstan's first-ever Earth observation satellite is to be fired into orbit next week from the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana, launch company A...
NASA Sees Earth From Orbit In 2013
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
A fleet of orbiting satellites monitors Earth constantly. The satellites from NASA and other space agencies give us a fresh, wide perspective on things that we ...
Google online maps go back in time
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
Google on Wednesday added virtual time travel to its Internet offerings. The technology titan began letting people turn back the clock on Street View images to ...
First radar vision for Copernicus
Apr 17, 2014 (ESA)
Launched on 3 April, ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite has already delivered its first radar images of Earth. They offer a tantalising glimpse of the kind of operatio...
Egyptian sensing satellite placed in orbit
Apr 17, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
An Egyptian land remote sensing satellite, Egyptsat, launched from Baikonur cosmodrome on Wednesday has successfully separated from Soyuz-U launch vehicle and e...
NASA Highlights Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission at Local Fair
Apr 16, 2014 (SPX)
Representatives from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., were on hand April 5, 2014, for an outdoor "show and tell" event called the Mini Make...
China uses satellite, drones to fight pollution
Apr 13, 2014 (XNA)
China is using satellites and drones to detect air pollution around Beijing and the practice will be expanded, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on ...
Mitsubishi Electric Begins Developing GOSAT-2 Satellite System
Apr 13, 2014 (SPX)
Mitsubishi Electric, the contractor selected to supply the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with a Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite-2 (GOSAT-2) for...
DMCii help Dutch company eLEAF provide much needed crop information to African farmers
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
eLEAF, a Netherlands-based high-tech company that supplies reliable, quantitative data on water and vegetation in order to support sustainable water use, increa...
China preps satellite to help detect quakes
Apr 07, 2014 (XNA)
China's first test satellite for detecting electromagnetic anomalies from space will launch in 2016 in a move that is aimed at improving the country's earthquak...
Sentinel-1 performs opening dance routine
Apr 07, 2014 (ESA)
Following its launch yesterday, Sentinel-1A has performed a carefully choreographed 10-hour dance routine to open its large radar antenna and solar wings. Durin...
A satellite view of volcanoes finds the link between ground deformation and eruption
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
ESA's Sentinel satellite, due for launch on April 3rd, should allow scientists to test this link in greater detail and eventually develop a forecast system for ...
Europe lofts first Copernicus environmental satellite
Apr 04, 2014 (ESA)
The ability of European citizens, policymakers and service providers to access key environmental data on a routine basis will take a major step forward followin...
Sensors and satellites deployed to save Pompeii
Apr 03, 2014 (AFP)
Ground sensors and satellites will be deployed in a new bid to keep the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from crumbling following a series of recent collapses at t...
Last look at Sentinel-1
Apr 02, 2014 (ESA)
As preparations for the launch of the first satellite for Copernicus continue on track, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana has said farewel...
NASA Radar Watches Over California's Aging Levees
Apr 02, 2014 (JPL)
One morning in 2008, research scientist Cathleen Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was flying over the San Andreas fault near San F...
Earth's dynamic interior
Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)
Seeking to better understand the composition of the lowermost part of Earth's mantle, located nearly 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the surface, a team of...
Satellite Shows High Productivity from US Corn Belt
Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)
Data from satellite sensors show that during the Northern Hemisphere's growing season, the Midwest region of the United States boasts more photosynthetic activi...
Satellite Movie Shows US East Coast Snowy Winter
Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)
A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. East Coast experienced a snowier than normal winter. ...
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