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'Going to the Top of the World to Touch the Sky' to feature in NASA lecture
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
Every day, Earth loses hundreds of tons of its atmosphere to space because of the influence of the Sun and its solar wind, in a process known as "atmospheric es...
Successful ocean-monitoring satellite mission ends
Oct 07, 2019 (JPL)
Jason-2/OSTM, a joint NASA mission with the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (...
Ball Aerospace delivers earth science instrument for Landsat 9
Sep 30, 2019 (SPX)
"Ball Aerospace is enabling the sustainability of the nation's land imaging architecture through collaboration with our customer and industry partners," said Ma...
A new satellite to understand how Earth is losing its cool
Sep 27, 2019 (ESA)
The Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) mission was one of two concepts competing to be ESA's ninth Earth Explorer mission. Ear...
Unofficial pathways visible from orbit play role in Detroit redevelopment
Sep 25, 2019 (SPX)
In what's believed to be the first comprehensive study of unofficial footpaths in a large urban area, U-M's Joshua Newell and colleague Alec Foster of Illinois ...
Suomi NPP tracks fire and smoke from two continents
Sep 17, 2019 (SPX)
Suomi's OMPS tracks the health of the ozone layer and measures the concentration of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere and can detect aerosols. Ozone is an importa...
First Earth observation satellite with AI ready for launch
Sep 13, 2019 (ESA)
As the overall 2017 Copernicus Masters winner, FSSCat, was proposed by Spain's Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and developed by a consortium of European co...
Sudden warming over Antarctica to prolong Australia drought
Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)
The unusual event, known as "sudden stratospheric warming", started in the last week of August when the atmosphere above Antarctica began heating rapidly, scien...
Cutting edge UK led satellite will help to identify natural resources from space
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
Searching for natural resources is often an expensive and hazardous exercise, carried out in remote areas of the world. However, high resolution images of terra...
Clemson physicists lead rocket missions to further explore the wonders of Earth's atmosphere
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
Stephen Kaeppler is the principal investigator on a project titled "INCAA," which will study how energy is transferred and dissipated during colorful active aur...
German HALO research aircraft to investigate ozone hole, Amazon fires and gravity waves
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
In the second phase of the campaign, in November, the scientific focus of the investigations will shift to the exchange of air masses between the stratosphere a...
Do animals control earth's oxygen level
Sep 11, 2019 (SPX)
In a new scientific study, researchers from the GLOBE Institute at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, have now found that the...
Lightning 'superbolts' form over oceans from November to February
Sep 10, 2019 (SPX)
A University of Washington study maps the location and timing of "superbolts" - bolts that release electrical energy of more than 1 million Joules, or a thousan...
Researchers show satellite data can reveal fire susceptibility in peatlands
Sep 10, 2019 (SPX)
Because of how they accumulate organic material for long periods of time, undisturbed peatlands are considered one of the most effective natural ecosystems for ...
Raytheon-built space sensor will fly aboard NASA satellite to measure coastal and ocean ecosystems
Aug 29, 2019 (SPX)
Hyperspectral imaging collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum including visible light, infrared and ultraviolet frequencies ...
NASA's ECOSTRESS Detects Amazon Fires from Space
Aug 29, 2019 (JPL)
The red areas in the images - in eastern Bolivia and northern Brazil - are where surface temperatures exceeded the maximum measurable temperature of the instrum...
New Landsat Infrared Instrument Ships from NASA
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
This month, TIRS-2 successfully passed the stringent 12-week testing process at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It was shipped to Nor...
Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate Science
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Southeast Asia to study ...
Capella Space partners with SpaceNet to expand access to SAR data
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
Capella joins the collaborative SpaceNet partnership alongside In-Q-Tel's (IQT) CosmiQ Works, Maxar Technologies, Intel AI and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Capell...
GRACE-FO shows the weight of Midwestern floods
Aug 21, 2019 (JPL)
Data from the twin GRACE-FO spacecraft are used to measure the change in the mass of water across the planet, providing scientists, decision makers and resource...
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