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New Satellite Movie Shows Massive Eastern US Cool Down

Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)

Three days of satellite imagery from NOAA's GOES-East satellite were compiled into an animation that showed the progression of the storm system that drastically...

European Parliament adopts earth observation programme Copernicus

Mar 14, 2014 (XNA)

The European Parliament on Wednesday gave its green light to Copernicus, the EU's new earth observation programme, according to a statement on its official webs...

Sub-meter satellite-derived bathymetry now commercially available

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

The teams of EOMAP and Satrec Initiative have launched the world's first commercial, sub-meter bathymetry product based on satellite imagery. "We've successfull...

China satellite finds 'suspected crash site' in Malaysia jet hunt

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

China said its satellites have detected three large floating objects in a suspected crash site near where a missing Malaysian jet lost contact, the latest twist...

Satellite guardians join search for missing plane

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

A fleet of Earth-monitoring satellites has joined the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the organisers of the satellite pool said on Wednesday....

NASA Radar Demonstrates Ability to Foresee Sinkholes

Mar 11, 2014 (JPL)

New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations n...

China 'deploys satellites' in search for Malaysia plane

Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)

Beijing is deploying as many as 10 satellites in hopes of tracking down Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, state media reported Tuesday, as the search for the vani...

Satellite Sees Winter Storm March Over Mid-Atlantic

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

On March 3, a major winter storm brought snow to the mid-Atlantic, freezing rain to the Carolinas and rain and some freezing rain to the Gulf Coast states. NOAA...

NASA-JAXA Launch Mission to Measure Global Rain, Snow

Feb 28, 2014 (JPL)

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), thu...

NASA Building Four Spacecraft to Study Magnetic Reconnection

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

First thing every morning, the engineering team for NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission gathers for a 10-minute meeting. A white board sits at the front of...

Counting Down to GPM

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Join NASA in counting down to the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission's Core Observatory, starting at noon EST, Thursday, Feb. 27. GPM is a j...

Sentinel-1 spreads its wings

Feb 24, 2014 (ESA)

When Sentinel-1 is placed in orbit around Earth in a few weeks, it has to perform a complicated dance routine to unfold its large solar wings and radar antenna....

NASA Satellites See Arctic Surface Darkening Faster

Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according...

Sharp-Eyed Proba-V Works Around The Clock

Feb 20, 2014 (ESA)

More than 5000 images, 65 daily global maps and six 10-day global syntheses, plus a quick peek at the Olympics: in its first two months of work, the vegetation-...

NASA Data Find Some Hope for Water in Aral Sea Basin

Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)

A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long-term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, s...

Glowing plants a sign of health

Feb 18, 2014 (ESA)

Radiant skin is considered a sign of good health in humans, but plants also glow when they are well. A potential new ESA satellite could use this fluorescence t...

Surveying storm damage from space: UK satellite provides images of Somerset floods

Feb 16, 2014 (SPX)

Satellite images taken by the UK's disaster monitoring satellite, UK-DMC2, are assisting UK agencies in their response to the severe flooding caused by recent s...

NASA-USGS Landsat 8 Satellite Celebrates First Year of Success

Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)

One year ago, on Feb. 11, 2013, NASA launched the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch went perfectly, a...

Largest Flock of Earth-Imaging Satellites Launch into Orbit From ISS

Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)

It is often said that if everyone had the opportunity to see Earth from the perspective of astronauts in space, respect and admiration for our planet would grow...

Olympics: Eye in the sky give viewers dramatic new angle

Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)

The Winter Olympics are jam-packed with daredevil feats that make for dramatic TV pictures. But at the Sochi Games an eye in the sky is offering a whole new per...