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Future terrestrial ecosystem will produce more oxygen for atmosphere
Nov 10, 2022 (SPX)
"Oxygen cycle is an essential biogeochemical cycle for all aerobic life on Earth. However, the modern oxygen cycle has experienced a drastic change compared wit...
Copernicus LSTM Expansion mission helping climate change adaptation
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
LSTM is part of the Copernicus programme established to fulfil the need among European policy-makers to access accurate and timely information services to bette...
Spire Global unveils solution for dark shipping detection
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
The Automatic Identification System (AIS) on a vessel helps avoid collisions at sea, track global shipping trends and monitor individual vessel activity; but cr...
NASA air pollution instrument completes satellite integration
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
From its geostationary orbit - a high Earth orbit that allows satellites to match Earth's rotation - TEMPO will take hourly daytime air quality observations at ...
Ceramics that breathe oxygen at lower temperatures help us breathe cleaner air
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
Nearly all petrol or diesel cars are equipped with catalytic converters that remove harmful hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide and convert them in...
Satellites help scientists track dramatic wetlands loss in Louisiana
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
From Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border, Louisiana has lost enough wetlands since the mid-1950s to cover the entire state of Rhode Island. Using a first-of-...
Airbus and Space Compass to target Japanese market for mobile and EO solutions
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
Samer Halawi, Chief Executive of Airbus HAPS, commented on the agreement: "Our dedicated team will be working closely with Space Compass to offer 4G/5G low-late...
Ground Survey Datasets Released to Validate Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data
Nov 07, 2022 (SPX)
Based on the datasets released earlier, which consist of typical datasets such as soil moisture, surface reflectance, leaf area index, water remote sensing refl...
Alpha Data powers NASA's climate change mineral dust detector on Space Station
Nov 04, 2022 (SPX)
Data gathered by the NASA instrument - called the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) - as the Space Station orbits Earth, will help scientis...
Geophysicist Leigh Royden looks at Earth from the top down
Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)
But when Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science (EAPS) professor Leigh "Wiki" Royden was elected to the Leopoldina, she was less impressed by it...
EnMAP is ready for science
Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)
"During what is known as the commissioning phase, EnMAP has delivered first-class images of our planet in outstanding quality," says Walther Pelzer, DLR Executi...
Using sound to model the world
Nov 02, 2022 (SPX)
The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews...
Give climate some MAGIC
Nov 01, 2022 (ESA)
The Global Climate Observing System - or GCOS for short - is an international framework that provides status reports and implementation plans to the United Nati...
'Earth is in our hands': Astronaut Pesquet's plea for the planet
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
Pesquet said his two tours onboard the International Space Station convinced him more than ever that the world is failing to address the threat posed by climate...
Sidus Space signs MOU with Mission Space for Space Weather Intelligence Data Partnership
Oct 27, 2022 (SPX)
With this partnership, Sidus Space will integrate sets of Mission Space's Space Weather detectors into its hybrid 3D printed satellite, LizzieSat. As Sidus Spac...
Record rise in climate-warming methane in 2021: UN
Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new records last year. Met...
New NASA tool helps detect 'super-emitters' of methane from space
Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)
"Reining in methane emissions is key to limiting global warming," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a press release on Tuesday. "This exciting new developm...
Mapping planet Earth for better positioning: ESA's GENESIS mission
Oct 21, 2022 (ESA)
GENESIS will work by combining and co-locating all four of the main technologies currently used for Earth geodetic measurement on the same platform for the firs...
Planet launches nonprofit program to drive more access to timely, global satellite data
Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)
In line with Planet's mission to use space to help life on Earth and in effort to enable more impactful uses of Planet's data, the offering addresses two tradit...
Europe's all-new weather satellite arrives at launch site
Oct 19, 2022 (ESA)
The first Meteosat Third Generation Imager, MTG-I1, along with 10 large containers of support equipment left the south of France on the MN Toucan cargo ship on ...
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