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Astrium to provide new satellite imagery for Google Maps and Google Earth
Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)
Astrium has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Google Inc. to provide satellite imagery in support of Google Maps, Google Earth and other Goog...
Astrium Services targeting geo information business growth
Sep 15, 2013 (SPX)
As previously announced during its teaser campaign, Astrium Services, Europe's leading space technology company, has launched a new video designed to communicat...
Using digital SLRs to measure the height of Northern Lights
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
Scientific research doesn't often start from outreach projects. Yet, Ryuho Kataoka from the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, came up with a...
Reflecting on Earth's albedo
Sep 11, 2013 (ESA)
The amount of sunlight being absorbed or reflected by Earth is one of the driving forces for weather and climate. Satellites are providing this information with...
Our living planet Earth's carbon dioxide breathing seen from space
Sep 09, 2013 (ESA)
Ten years of satellite observations of greenhouse gases reveal that carbon dioxide in our atmosphere continues to increase despite international efforts to redu...
After a Fire, Before a Flood: NASA's Landsat Directs Restoration to At-Risk Areas
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
While the 138,000-acre Silver Fire still smoldered, forest restoration specialists were on the job. They analyzed maps created using Landsat satellite data to d...
JIB Antennas Will Support Ship ID Capability Being Added to Canadas RADARSAT Constellation Mission
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Small, lightweight JIB antennas from Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace business unit will help provide a new maritime identification capability for Canada's th...
NASA's Landsat Revisits Old Flames in Fire Trends
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
The Wallow Fire burned over 500,000 acres, making it the largest fire in Arizona history, to date. It is one of many large fires that fire managers and research...
NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
Sep 03, 2013 (SPX)
Data from a NASA airborne science mission reveals evidence of a large and previously unknown canyon hidden under a mile of Greenland ice. The canyon has the cha...
Map carved onto surface of ostrich egg may be oldest showing New World
Aug 22, 2013 (UPI)
The carved surface of an ostrich egg shows what is thought to be the oldest known depiction of the New World on a globe, a U.S. map society says. The globe, dat...
Thai villagers mistake Google worker for government snoop
Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)
Thai villagers on Wednesday apologised for mistaking a Google worker for a government snoop as he carried out mapping for the Internet giant's "Street View" pro...
Norway says no to Apple request to photograph Oslo for 3-D maps
Aug 12, 2013 (UPI)
The Norwegian government, citing security concerns, says it has denied a request from Apple to do a 3-D mapping of the capital city of Oslo. Norway's National S...
Africa's ups and downs
Aug 09, 2013 (ESA)
The East African Rift is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart, making it a region of high geological activity, home to a number of volcanoes. This...
Lockheed Completes Solar UV Imager For GOES-R Enviro Tests
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
A Lockheed Martin team has completed and passed the full range of environmental tests - electrical, mechanical and thermal - for the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (S...
GOES-R Satellite Magnetometer Boom Deployment Successful
Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)
The GOES-R Magnetometer Engineering Development Unit made an important development in the construction of the spacecraft recently after completing a successful ...
NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in the Heart of Earth's Radiation Belts
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged ...
Seeing Photosynthesis from Space: NASA Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Plant Health
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
NASA scientists have established a new way to use satellites to measure what's occurring inside plants at a cellular level. Plants grow and thrive through photo...
First high-resolution national carbon map - Panama
Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers has for the first time mapped the above ground carbon density of an entire country in high fidelity. They integrated field data with satel...
NASA Releases Images of Earth Taken by Distant Spacecraft
Jul 23, 2013 (JPL)
Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of...
The First Interplanetary Photobomb
Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)
Consider it the first interplanetary photobomb. On July 19th, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will photograph Earth through the rings of Saturn--and NASA wants you to...
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