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Clemson doctoral candidate uses rockets to surf the Alaskan sky
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
Mesquita and a multi-institutional research team documented "surfer waves" in the upper atmosphere that create a pipeline of energy between layers in space. Jus...
Rocket sees curling waves above Alaskan sky
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists photograph the gas, which is not harmful to humans, after it instantaneously ignites when exposed to oxygen. The findings were published in JGR: Spac...
Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
It wasn't easy: To capture Earth as an alien world, the researchers had to use the moon as a giant mirror, recording sunlight that had passed through our planet...
Contract signed to build Europe's carbon dioxide monitoring mission
Aug 03, 2020 (ESA)
With a contract secured worth euro 445 million, OHB will lead the industrial consortium to start building the two satellites. As the main contractor, OHB is res...
Satellite survey shows California's sinking coastal hotspots
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The most relevant quantity for assessing the impacts of sea-level change on these communities is the relative sea-level rise - the elevation change between the ...
New Space satellite pinpoints industrial methane emissions
Jul 30, 2020 (ESA)
GHGSat is a New Space initiative that draws on Copernicus Sentinel-5P data for mapping methane hotspots - and its Claire satellite has now collected more than 6...
China's newly-launched satellite to boost surveying, mapping capabilities
Jul 28, 2020 (XNA)
The Ziyuan III 03 satellite was sent into orbit by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. It will pro...
Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
Can multi-annual variations in the frequency of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking and mid-latitude circulation regimes be skillfully predicted? Recent advance...
Reduction in commercial flights due to COVID-19 leading to less accurate weather forecasts
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
A new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the world lost 50-75% of its aircraft weather observations between March and May of this year, w...
China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite
Jul 27, 2020 (XNA)
A joint statement from the China National Space Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources said the Ziyuan 3-03 lifted off at 11:13 am atop a Long Mar...
Earth's vibrations quieted during COVID-19 lockdowns
Jul 24, 2020 (UPI)
A new study, published in the journal Science, suggests the COVID-19 pandemic -- and the resulting restrictions on businesses and the movements of citizens -- l...
Earth is made, on average, of cubes
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
Science has steadily moved beyond Plato's conjectures, looking instead to the atom as the building block of the universe. Yet Plato seems to have been onto some...
A Walk Through the Rainbow with PACE
Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)
PACE's high-resolution instruments will see ocean and atmosphere features in unparalleled detail when the mission launches in 2023. By measuring the intensity o...
Syncing a NASA laser with an ESA radar for a new look at sea ice
Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)
When the maneuvers are complete later this summer, the two satellites will pass over a swath of the Arctic within a few hours of each other. That synchronous st...
Fallout from COVID-19 pandemic making weather forecasts less accurate
Jul 17, 2020 (UPI)
According to new research, weather forecasts have gotten less accurate over the course of the pandemic, as a result of the decrease in commercial airline flight...
China's marine satellites support coral reef protection in South China Sea
Jul 16, 2020 (XNA)
State broadcaster CCTV reported that the National Satellite Ocean Application Service will cooperate with a coral reef research center in Guangxi University to ...
Methane emissions rise nine percent in decade
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
Methane (CH4) has a warming potential 28 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period and its concentration in the atmosphere has more than doubled since the I...
How does Earth sustain its magnetic field?
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Life as we know it could not exist without Earth's magnetic field and its ability to deflect dangerous ionizing particles from the solar wind and more far-flung...
New study detects ringing of the global atmosphere
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
In the case of the atmosphere, the "music" comes not as a sound we could hear, but in the form of large-scale waves of atmospheric pressure spanning the globe a...
Simulations shows magnetic field can change 10 times faster than previously thought
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Their study gives new insight into the swirling flow of iron 2800 kilometres below the planet's surface and how it has influenced the movement of the magnetic f...
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