EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

Corridor test of Proba-3's formation flying sensors

Mar 30, 2021 (ESA)

The Proba-3 pair will fly at a nominal 144 m apart for coronal observations, while in addition performing formation reconfiguration manoeuvres that will change ...

Astronomy and Landscape in the city of Caral, the oldest city in the Americas

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

Ruth Shady Solis, has established the relation between the position of the monuments of the Supe Culture (Peru), their orientations, and some astronomical and t...

Utilis secures $6m from Beringea to harness satellites to protect critical infrastructure and global water supplies

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

Utilis was founded in 2013 by Lauren Guy, a scientist focused on atmospheric physics and dynamics studying the ability of space-based synthetic aperture radar (...

Axelspace and KSAT expands their partnership

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

With the successful launch of 4 satellites (GRUS-1B, 1C, 1D and 1E) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on March 22, 2021, Axelspace is moving toward its go...

AI and satellite images come together to discover hidden archaeological sites

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

The AI will be able to recognize even minimal or imperceptible variations in vegetation or other particular signs of the surface that may indicate the presence ...

NASA's GLOBE program celebrates 25 years

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

"We make sure they're not coming in polluting the water or the air and that the oil they use is low in sulfur and meets U.S. air quality regulations," she said....

Direct observations confirm that humans are throwing Earth's energy budget off balance

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Radiative energy enters Earth's system from the sunlight that shines on our planet. Some of this energy reflects off of Earth's surface or atmosphere back into ...

Aerosol formation in clouds

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Aerosols, a mixture of solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, play an important role in Earth's climate. Aerosols originate either from natural or huma...

Satellites map record floods in Australia

Mar 26, 2021 (ESA)

This radar image uses information from two separate images captured by the Sentinel-1 mission on 7 and 19 March highlighting flooded areas in dark blue and urba...

Dubai reports launch of DMSat-1 Atmospheric Monitoring Microsatellite

Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)

SFL developed DMSat-1 under contract to the Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 15-kg microsatellite was...

New Chinese satellite measures solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

China has committed to carbon neutrality by 2060. Technological upgrades and energy structure adjustments through the next four decades will be vital to reducin...

Boston company plans satellites for global weather radar

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

The company, which already sells weather data services to such firms as Uber and Delta, won't say how many satellites it plans. ClimaCell claims to have new tec...

Pixxel to launch the world's highest resolution hyperspectral smallsat constellation

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Additionally, for the first time today, Pixxel came out of stealth and publicly announced its mission to build the world's highest resolution hyperspectral sate...

The blast that shook the ionosphere

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Just after 6 p.m. local time (15.00 UTC) on August 4, 2020, more than 2,750 tons worth of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate exploded in Lebanon's port city of Be...

Bentley Systems to Acquire Seequent

Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)

The acquisition of Seequent is expected to initially add approximately 10% to each of Bentley Systems' key financial metrics (ARR, annual revenue, and EBITDA) a...

CH4 responsible for more than 80% of recent atmospheric methane growth

Mar 16, 2021 (UPI)

More than 80% of observed changes in the global atmospheric methane growth rate from 2010 to 2019 were the result of tropical terrestrial methane emissions, or ...

When North was South, and South was North

Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)

Over the next 30 years, with a better understanding of the Earth's magnetic field, theories were advanced that further suggested our magnetic field may have rev...

Contract signed to build Arctic weather satellite

Mar 10, 2021 (ESA)

This prototype is the forerunner of a potential constellation of satellites that would supply an almost constant stream of temperature and humidity data from ev...

How much longer will the oxygen-rich atmosphere be sustained on Earth?

Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)

A new study published in Nature Geoscience this week tackles this problem using a numerical model of biogeochemistry and climate and reveals that the future lif...

ESA Eyes On Earth: Galapagos Islands

Mar 05, 2021 (ESA)

The archipelago consists of 13 major islands and a handful of smaller islands and islets scattered across approximately 60 000 sq km of ocean. Repeated volcanic...