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Sci-fi skies: 'Haboob' plunges Phoenix into darkness
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
A massive wall of dust swept through Phoenix, plunging the southwest US city into near-total darkness, grounding flights, forcing motorists off the road and cut...
Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel 2 Expands Global Earth Monitoring Capabilities
Aug 26, 2025 (SPX)
Sentinel-2A's launch in 2015, followed by Sentinel-2B in 2017, provided optical data compatible with Landsat. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center led efforts to ...
First atmospheric data collected by Japans new GOSAT GW satellite
Aug 25, 2025 (SPX)
The satellite, launched on June 29, 2025, is the third in Japan's dedicated greenhouse gas monitoring program. Its onboard sensor, the Total Anthropogenic and N...
Ozone recovery will accelerate global warming say scientists
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
Although international bans on ozone-depleting chemicals such as CFCs have aided the layer's recovery, combined effects with air pollution mean ozone could add ...
Indian Private Space Consortium to Build First National Earth Observation Satellite Network
Aug 18, 2025 (SPX)
The winning team, comprising SatSure, Pixxel Space, PierSight, and Dhruva Space, will execute the mission under the Earth Observation Public-Private-Partnership...
ICEYE introduces Scan Wide mode to enhance SAR satellite imaging capacity
Aug 18, 2025 (SPX)
The new mode leverages ICEYE's phased array imaging technology, offering a range from 25 cm resolution Dwell and Spot modes to the 27 m resolution Scan Wide mod...
Do you want to freeze a cloud? Desert dust might help
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Drawing on 35 years of satellite observations, an international research team led by ETH Zurich found that mineral dust - tiny particles swept up by the wind an...
Rare gigantic jet captured from ISS by NASA astronaut
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
"Gigantic jets are a powerful type of electrical discharge that extends from the top of a thunderstorm into the upper atmosphere," explained Dr. Burcu Kosar, Pr...
Sunlight powered flyers unlock access to the mesosphere
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Photophoresis arises when gas molecules recoil more strongly from a warmer surface than from a cooler one, producing a net push. The effect is negligible at sea...
European satellite to step up monitoring of extreme weather
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
The Ariane 6 rocket on Wednesday blasted off carrying Europe's next generation satellite for warning against extreme weather events. As many European countries ...
SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Aug 05, 2025 (SPX)
Forests serve as crucial carbon reservoirs, sequestering carbon in tree trunks, roots, branches, and leaves. Yet their ability to absorb carbon fluctuates due t...
Astronomy tools adapted to monitor greenhouse gases from starlight
Aug 05, 2025 (SPX)
As starlight travels through the Earth's atmosphere, molecules such as CO2, CH4, and H2O imprint distinct absorption features - called telluric lines - onto the...
Rocket Lab launches Japanese radar satellite
Aug 05, 2025 (UPI)
The mission "The Harvest Goddess Thrives" lifted off from Rocket Lab's launch complex 1 at the New Zealand site at 12:10 a.m. EDT. The deployed satellite went i...
China launches remote sensing satellite for Pakistan using Kuaizhou rocket
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
The satellite, designed and manufactured by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is intended to bolster land resour...
Weather-tracking advances are revealing astonishing extremes of lightning
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
"We call it megaflash lightning and we're just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs," said Randy Cerveny, an Arizona State University Preside...
Earth's magnetic field could form even with a fully liquid core
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
According to the well-established dynamo theory, the Earth's magnetic field is generated by convection currents in its liquid outer core. These currents, compos...
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecasts
Jul 31, 2025 (UPI)
One month ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a notice about the change by the U.S. Navy, effective July 1. Then NOAA said the ch...
US, India to launch powerful Earth-monitoring satellite
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Dubbed NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), the pickup truck-sized spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 5:40 pm (1210 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space...
China unveils decades spanning Landsat dataset to advance environmental research
Jul 30, 2025 (SPX)
Developed by Yaotong Cai and colleagues at the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIRCAS), the dataset addresses longstanding challenges in satellite dat...
Cosmic dust particles reveal snapshot of Earth's ancient air
Jul 30, 2025 (SPX)
These particles, visible as shooting stars when they enter the atmosphere, melt on entry and form tiny spheres of iron and nickel oxides. The oxygen in these ox...
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