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Sentinel-6 passes in-orbit tests with flying colours
Feb 09, 2021 (ESA)
The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is the first of two identical satellites to provide critical measurements of sea-level change. The satellit...
Pioneering NASA mini weather satellite ends its mission
Feb 09, 2021 (JPL)
After nearly 2 1/2 years in orbit, a shoebox-size weather satellite phoned home one last time before plunging into Earth's atmosphere and burning up on Dec. 24,...
Aeolus shines a light on polar vortex
Feb 05, 2021 (ESA)
The polar vortex is a huge mass of frigid air high above the North Pole in the polar stratosphere. It is surrounded by a strong jet of air swirling counter-cloc...
MDA announces RADARSAT-2 continuity mission
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
The satellite mission will be based upon its leading space-based C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, and will provide operational continuity for i...
Drone and landsat imagery shows long-term change in vegetation cover along intermittent river
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
The study leveraged recent drone imagery and past satellite imagery to estimate past vegetation cover in this linear oasis of the Kuiseb River, a fertile area i...
Extreme UV laser shows generation of atmospheric pollutant
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
An advanced laser technique has allowed researchers to observe, in real-time, the decomposition of a pollutant into atmospheric nitrous acid, which plays a key ...
A fine-grained view of dust storms
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Dust storms occur when strong winds lift tiny particles of sand into the atmosphere. These events often span several miles and can have an enormous impact on da...
Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters
Feb 04, 2021 (ESA)
Natural wetlands are some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems and are critical for human survival. They provide many important benefits for humanity, ...
Waldrop leads $75M NASA mission to investigate Earth's atmosphere
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
Waldrop's Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Science Mission of Opportunity, titled "Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere," or "GLIDE" for short, was ...
Human activity caused the long-term growth of greenhouse gas methane
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
While the global warming potential of CH4 is 86 times as large as that of CO2 over 20 years, it stays in the atmosphere for about 10 years, much shorter than mo...
Earth from Space: Lake Titicaca
Feb 01, 2021 (ESA)
Covering an area of around 8300 sq km, Lake Titicaca lies on the high Andes plateau and straddles the border between Peru (to the west) and Bolivia (to the east...
Low-cost high resolution nighttime light data
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
Alba Orbital, headquartered in Scotland, has developed a unique PocketQube Satellite platform developed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). The...
US must unify atmospheric biology research or risk national security, scientists say
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
Claire Williams, the paper's primary author and a research professor at American University, has spent decades studying long-range transport of tree pollen. Her...
LiveEO performs satellite-based vegetation risk analysis of entire US power grid
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
The analysis covers the detection of vegetation along the transmission grid, as well as the identification of grid segments that are exposed at dangerously clos...
Satellite data reveals bonds between emissions, pollution and economy
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
"We know air pollution and economic development are linked, but we want to know how tightly and whether our actions can change this," said Ruixue Lei, a post-do...
An airborne stratospheric observatory measures concentration of atomic oxygen directly
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfRA) and the Univ...
ABB sensor onboard SpaceX rocket to detect greenhouse gas emissions
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
The ABB supplied optical sensor can map methane emissions from space at a resolution that is 100 times higher than any other sensors. Whilst previously only lar...
China collects 100PB of Earth observation data
Jan 25, 2021 (XNA)
The collected data resources have been used for both free and commercial usage to serve more than 300,000 users, inducing significant social and economic benefi...
Tiny particles formed from trace gases can seed open ocean clouds
Jan 22, 2021 (UPI)
When sunlight reacts with trace gas molecules in the marine boundary layer, the half-a-mile-thick layer of atmosphere that sits above the open ocean, tiny aeros...
Genesis of blue lightning into the stratosphere detected from ISS
Jan 21, 2021 (ESA)
As it turns out, there are many things left to discover, such as blue jets, elves and red sprites. These bizarre-sounding things are very difficult to observe f...
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