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Unravelling the mysteries of clouds
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
The 2.3-tonne satellite is now being transported from the Airbus site in Friedrichshafen, Germany, to the European Space Agency's ESTEC technology centre in Noo...
Update on NASA's TROPICS-1 Mission
Jun 14, 2022 (JPL)
TROPICS is an Earth venture mission - science-driven, competitively selected, low-cost missions that provide opportunity for investment in innovative Earth scie...
Clouds played an important role in the history of climate
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
Viewed from space, Earth may have looked like a giant snowball during the global ice ages of the Cryogenian period. In the geosciences, this hypothesis that the...
Studying grassland from space
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
very three to five days, they record images in the visible and infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which, with a very high resolution of up to 10 me...
Earth's magnetic poles not about to flip
Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)
The Earth's magnetic field acts as an invisible shield against the life-threatening environment in space, and solar winds that would otherwise sweep away the at...
Updating our understanding of Earth's architecture
Jun 09, 2022 (SPX)
"We looked at the current knowledge of the configuration of plate boundary zones and the past construction of the continental crust," said Dr Derrick Hasterok, ...
Lynred launches two multispectral linear array infrared detectors for EO missions
Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)
Multispectral IR detectors enable users to obtain light measurements in a number of spectral wavelength bands covering the infrared range from short- to very lo...
The consequences of climate change in the Alps are visible from space
Jun 03, 2022 (SPX)
Melting glaciers have become a symbol of climate change in the Alps. Now, the reduction in snow cover is already visible from space but this is by no means the ...
China's newly-launched meteorological satellites put into trial operation
Jun 03, 2022 (SPX)
The two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), will provide observation data and application services to global users. The FY-3E, launched on Ju...
Five things to know about NASA's new mineral dust detector
Jun 02, 2022 (JPL)
Launching to the International Space Station on June 9, NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument will help fill in those knowled...
Ultrafine dust might cause weather extremes
Jun 01, 2022 (SPX)
As carbon dioxide is homogeneously distributed in space due to its long lifetime, however, it does not sufficiently explain the variability of the distribution ...
NASA eyes November launch of NOAA's JPSS-2
Jun 01, 2022 (SPX)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument, or VIIRS, experienced a test equipment issue during thermal vacuum testing. Engineers determined the i...
AI and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won't replace human experts
May 29, 2022 (The Conversation)
It didn't work because not enough was known about the science of the atmosphere at that time. "Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance...
Putting the future in FutureEO
May 29, 2022 (ESA)
Speaking at the symposium, Christine Gommenginger from the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, said, "We have a rapidly changing Earth observation landscape...
New class of substances detected in atmospheric chemistry
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
The lifetime of ROOOHs is estimated to be minutes to hours. Hydrotrioxides represent a hitherto unnoticed class of substances in the atmosphere, the effects of ...
GHGSat doubles capacity to monitor methane emissions with three new ABB-built optical sensors
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
With ABB's technology, the GHGSat team is able to precisely locate and measure methane emissions from any given industrial site on earth. The launch of three ne...
Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
With over 99 percent agreement among climate scientists, it is now clear that Earth is warming globally and that this warming is predominantly human-made. Tempe...
It's a kind of MAGIC
May 25, 2022 (ESA)
Among the many in-depth presentations and lively discussions taking place at the symposium, there is much enthusiasm for MAGIC, which by measuring Earth's gravi...
Polar Ice and Snow monitoring mission CRISTAL on track
May 25, 2022 (SPX)
CRISTAL will carry an advanced multi-frequency altimeter that will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet elevations - key climate change indicators. The CRIST...
New measurements from Northern Sweden show less methane emissions than feared
May 24, 2022 (SPX)
A typical landscape in northern Sweden. On the left is a pond vegetation controlled by high water levels and on the right a drier tundra vegetation, which is be...
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