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NASA Satellites Examine a Powerful Summer Storm
Jul 09, 2012 (SPX)
As a powerful summertime storm, known as a derecho, moved from Illinois to the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29, expanding and bringing destruction with it, NASA ...
Satellite research reveals smaller volcanoes could cool climate
Jul 09, 2012 (SPX)
A University of Saskatchewan-led international research team has discovered that aerosols from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high ...
ESA-China collaboration takes Earth observation to new heights
Jul 05, 2012 (ESA)
ESA and China have been cooperating through the Dragon Programme since 2004 to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the p...
Bottleneck off the Orkney Islands
Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)
A mere 10 kilometres separate John O'Groats, at the northernmost tip of the Scottish mainland, and South Ronaldsay, in the Orkney Islands. What passengers on th...
Arianespace to launch DZZ-HR high-resolution observation satellite
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Jean Dauphin, Director Earth Observation Navigation and Science - Astrium France, announced that they ha...
China to invest in Earth monitoring system
Jun 27, 2012 (UPI)
China says it will invest $81 million to build a national network to monitor movement in the Earth's crust and for other Earth sciences in the next four years. ...
Delving Inside Earth from Space
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
European Space Agency, or ESA, astronaut Andre Kuipers is running experiments on the International Space Station that are shedding light on conditions deep insi...
Earth observation for us and our planet
Jun 25, 2012 (ESA)
The Rio+20 summit on promoting jobs, clean energy and a more sustainable use of our planet's resources closed after three days of talks. During the summit, the ...
Teledyne to Develop Space-Based Digital Imaging Capability
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Teledyne Technologies has been awarded a Cooperative Agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to foster the commercial utilization ...
Soil Moisture Climate Data Record observed from Space
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
The future of the world's climate is determined by various parameters, such as the density of clouds or the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet. One of these crucia...
Satellites show less pollution from deforestation
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
Satellite data has shown that harmful carbon emissions from forest loss around the world may be up to 70 percent less than prior estimates, US researchers said ...
NASA Selects Low Cost, High Science Earth Venture Space System
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted to the agency's Announcement of Opportunity for small s...
Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of...
Embedded Educators: Teacher Research Experience in Greenland with Operation IceBridge
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
In mid-April, scientists working in a remote corner of Greenland on NASA's Operation IceBridge gave five teachers a taste of what airborne polar science is like...
Google launches cultural map of Brazil's Amazon tribe
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil' Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of t...
Delving inside Earth from space
Jun 13, 2012 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is running experiments on the International Space Station that are shedding light on conditions deep inside Earth. Orbiting some 400...
NASA's Ocean Salinity Pathfinder Celebrates its First Year in Orbit
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
It's been a busy first year in space for Aquarius, NASA's pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit. Designed to advance our understand...
Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation's newest Earth-observing ...
Indra Incorporates Rapideye Satellite Capacity Into Its Earth Observation Service
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
Indra has signed an agreement making it the only company in Spain to market images from RapidEye's constellation of five satellites. This will strengthen the Ea...
UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote reg...
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