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Study links polar vortex disruption with extreme winter weather
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, rising temperatures in the Arctic and subsequent disruptions to the polar vortex have incre...
Satellite observes power outages in New Orleans
Sep 02, 2021 (JPL)
A team of scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has mapped the outages using satellite data....
Ball Aerospace selected for two Landsat next studies
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
The two six-month studies will look at instrument architectures and designs for the next generation of Landsat. "Users around the world rely on the continuity a...
A Lunar-based Soft X-ray Imager for the Earth's magnetosphere
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
However, relying on single-point or multi-point in-situ measurements is not enough for grasping the global effects caused by the solar wind disturbance, which i...
GOLD's bird's-eye reveals dynamics in Earth's interface to space
Aug 31, 2021 (SPX)
GOLD is in geostationary orbit, which means it orbits around Earth at the same pace the planet turns and "hovers" over the same spot overhead. This allows GOLD ...
Precipitation in central Asia shaped by sea surface temperature over tropical pacific and north Atlantic
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest that the tropical Pacific decadal variability (TPDV) and ...
On the trail of methane sources in Scandinavia
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
Three measurement aircraft, 20 balloons and three Earth observation satellites are providing data about the region. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentr...
The Congo rainforest makes its own spring rain
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
The answer is the rainforest itself, according to a new study published in the AGU journal JGR: Biogeosciences, which publishes research on the interactions amo...
Protecting the ozone layer also protects Earth's ability to sequester carbon
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
"We know the ozone layer is connected to climate. We know greenhouse gases affect the ozone layer. But what we've never done before this is connect the ozone la...
Further evidence of 200 million-year cycle for Earth's magnetic field
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers performed thermal and microwave (a technique which is unique to the University of Liverpool) paleomagnetic analysis on rock samples from ancient lav...
Leak and destroy: On the hunt for climate killing gas
Aug 22, 2021 (AFP)
His roughly basketball-sized container was filled with CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), a potent greenhouse gas that is perfectly legal to possess but which has been...
BRICS to set up remote-sensing satellite network
Aug 19, 2021 (XNA)
The heads of national space agencies in BRICS countries met on Wednesday via video link and signed the Agreement on the Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Sate...
By chance, ozone treaty prevented 'scorched Earth' climate
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
If the Montreal Protocol had not banned the manmade gases that dissolve naturally occurring ozone, by 2100 they would have heated up the planet's surface 2.5 de...
Europe's Vega rocket blasts off with Airbus observation satellite
Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)
It was the second launch this year of the Vega, a crucial component of European ambitions to compete with rivals such as Elon Musk's SpaceX in the booming comme...
Recordings of ancient magnetic field teaches us about the magnetic field today
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers examined pottery and burnt flints from archaeological sites in Jordan, on which the magnetic field during that time period was recorded. Information...
NASA unveils new interactive website ahead of Landsat 9 launch
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
Members of the media are also invited to a remote media briefing Tuesday, Aug. 31, tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT. The briefing will allow reporters to a...
Indian Space Research Organisation fails to place earth observation satellite in orbit
Aug 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
The Earth observation satellite EOS-03, launched on Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR in Sriharikota, failed to reach orbit due to a "per...
Stanford researchers use artificial intelligence to unlock extreme weather mysteries
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
Now, Stanford researchers have developed a machine learning tool to identify conditions for extreme precipitation events in the Midwest, which account for over ...
Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite
Aug 10, 2021 (ESA)
The Sentinel-2 satellites each carry an innovative high-resolution multispectral imager, which combined with their 290 km-wide swath and frequent revisit times,...
India to launch earth observation satellite GISAT-1/EOS-3 on August 12
Aug 06, 2021 (IANS)
The GISAT-1 will be the country's first sky eye or earth observation satellite to be placed in geo-stationary orbit. The GISAT-1 will be launched by the rocket ...
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