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Weather extremes becoming 'new normal', warns UK's National Trust
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
The heritage conservation charity's climate change adviser Keith Jones said it was a "stark illustration of the sort of difficulties many of our species will fa...
What drives decline of East Asian dust activity in the past two decades?
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
Dust entrained into the atmosphere serves as a major aerosol type, exerting effects on weather and climate system via aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions and d...
Building on Landsat's legacy is NASA and USGS's next goal
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
"I think this is going to be a phenomenally capable instrument, with the biggest leap in Landsat capability since Landsat 4," said Bruce Cook, NASA Landsat Next...
How magnetic waves interact with Earth's bubble
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
Shock waves occur in air when a plane travels faster than the speed of sound and also occur in plasma (a fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible...
Sedimentary rock chert records cooling of the Earth over billions of years
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
The scientists analysed "cherts" - sedimentary rocks that form from seawater and the remains of silica-secreting creatures. Using these "time capsules", the tea...
WHO chief 'very concerned' about Covid situation in China
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
"WHO is very concerned over the evolving situation in China, with increasing reports of severe disease" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a weekly news conference...
Christmas comes early for Aeolus
Dec 18, 2022 (ESA)
It's another remarkable success for ESA's fifth Earth Explorer. Launched in 2018 after many technical challenges, Aeolus pioneered what none had pioneered befor...
NASA sensors to help detect methane emitted by landfills
Dec 18, 2022 (JPL)
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the source of roughly a quarter to a third of global warming caused by humans. The aim of the new initiative is to establish...
JAXA startup Tenchijin announces funding from JAXA
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
This funding will enable Tenchijin to enhance its product capabilities and expand its usage to yield direct benefits for society and businesses on Earth. Since ...
NASA launches satellite for landmark study of Earth's water
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a billion-dollar project jointly developed by NASA and France's space agency CNES, took off at 1146 GMT...
First Images Released From NOAA-21 VIIRS Instrument
Dec 15, 2022 (SPX)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on NOAA-21 began collecting Earth science data on Dec. 5 as the satellite passed over the East ...
Planet makes its geospatial data available through Amazon SageMaker
Dec 15, 2022 (SPX)
Planet operates the largest constellation of earth observation satellites in the world, with the capacity to provide daily medium- and high-resolution imagery o...
Study explains surprise surge in methane during pandemic lockdown
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Methane stays in the atmosphere only a fraction as long as carbon dioxide, but is far more efficient at trapping heat and is responsible for roughly 30 percent ...
Satellogic signs letter of intent with Mexico for dedicated EO program
Dec 14, 2022 (SPX)
The LOI provides a framework for the development of a Constellation-as-a-Service program, leveraging Satellogic satellites to deliver high-resolution multispect...
A new era of weather forecasting begins
Dec 14, 2022 (ESA)
The satellite separated from the rocket 34 minutes later and then Malindi ground station in Kenya received the signal from MTG-I1, indicating the satellite is i...
Airbus delivers first Sentinel-4 air-monitoring instrument to ESA
Dec 14, 2022 (SPX)
The instrument will continuously monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols from geostationary orbit with Europe and North Africa in the field of view. Tr...
Looking back from beyond the Moon: how views from space have changed the way we see Earth
Dec 14, 2022 (SPX)
The snap was taken during the Artemis I mission, which sent an uncrewed vehicle on a journey around the Moon and back in preparation for astronauts' planned lun...
Earth's inner core may be oxygen-rich
Dec 14, 2022 (SPX)
The Earth's solid inner core, as one of the most mysterious places on the planet, is in the most extreme temperature and pressure environment on Earth, with a p...
Terran Orbital creates new Optical Solutions Group
Dec 09, 2022 (SPX)
The Optical Solutions Group will develop and field cost-effective and responsive space-based imaging solutions for Earth Observation and Space Domain Awareness....
How the current Southwestern North American megadrought is affecting Earth's upper atmosphere
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
More than 30 years ago, Chester Gardner of UIUC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chiao-Yao She of Colorado State University's Department ...
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