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Monitoring the Matterhorn with millions of data points

Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)

The unpredicted rockfall was the incentive for setting up PermaSense, a unique project consortium bringing together experts from different engineering and envir...

Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases

Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)

The new biologically-based technique, published in Nature Chemical Biology, was developed by USF Professor Ramon Gonzalez, PhD, and his research team. It utiliz...

Making sense of remote sensing data

Aug 12, 2019 (SPX)

But as this flood of data has rolled into laboratory computers around the world, researchers have found themselves without well-developed analytical tools to ma...

Using lasers to visualize molecular mysteries in our atmosphere

Aug 12, 2019 (SPX)

Kenneth McKendrick and Matthew Costen, both at Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, U.K., hope their new technique of enabling the visualization of gas molecul...

Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought

Aug 08, 2019 (SPX)

Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening toward Siberia, which recently forced the...

CryoSat conquers ice on Arctic lakes

Aug 07, 2019 (ESA)

CryoSat, one of ESA's Earth Explorer satellites, carries the first radar altimeter of its kind. The instrument is traditionally used to determine the thickness ...

Roscosmos postpones launch of second Arctic weather satellite

Aug 05, 2019 (Sputnik)

In May, Roscosmos postponed the launch of the first Arktika-M satellite for the second half of 2020 from 2019. The federal space program of Russia for 2016-2025...

NASA targets coastal ecosystems with new space sensor

Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)

The selected Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) instrument, led by principal investigator Joseph Salisbury at the University of N...

Airbus selects exactEarth as AIS Partner for new maritime applications platform

Aug 02, 2019 (SPX)

Under the terms of this 2-year agreement, exactEarth will provide Airbus with live and archived data from exactView RT, the Company's second-generation real-tim...

Satellite-connected tags set to boost marine conservation

Jul 31, 2019 (ESA)

The device, developed in collaboration with ESA, is smaller and more durable than existing tags, as well as being cheaper and more animal friendly. It records p...

African smoke is fertilizing Amazon rainforest and oceans

Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)

Nutrients found in atmospheric particles, called aerosols, are transported by winds and deposited to the ocean and on land where they stimulate the productivity...

China shares satellite data with India to help millions in flood-hit regions

Jul 31, 2019 (Sputnik)

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) - China's space agency - has shared images captured by three Chinese earth observation satellites on the 19, 20 a...

NASA's Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor Goes to Work Aboard the International Space Station

Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)

Enter NASA's Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor (S.A.M.), which flew as payload aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft that launched on July 25 from Cape Canavera...

China launches 3 Yaogan-30 satellites into orbit

Jul 30, 2019 (Sputnik)

The launch of the carrier rocket Long March 2C took place at 11:57 a.m. local time (3:57 GMT) on Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China's sout...

Commercial Space Ride Secured for NASA's New Air Pollution Sensor

Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)

Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, will provide satellite integration, launch and data transmission services for NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monito...

Second laser boosts Aeolus power

Jul 24, 2019 (ESA)

Developing novel space technology is always a challenge, and despite the multitude of tests that are done in the development and build phases, engineers can nev...

Tracking Smoke From Fires to Improve Air Quality Forecasting

Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)

A joint campaign led by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (...

Chaos theory produces map for predicting paths of particles emitted into the atmosphere

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

Particles from industrial accidents have the potential to travel full hemispheres before falling to the ground. A new model drawing on chaos theory, and publish...

Earth's Shining Upper Atmosphere - From the Apollo Era to the Present

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

This picture highlights Earth's ionosphere, a region of the upper atmosphere that is mostly invisible to our eyes - aside from aurora or airglow, if you're in t...

PlanetiQ secures $18.7M Series B financing round

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

New Science Ventures and AV8 Ventures co-led the investment round with participation from existing and new investors, Valo Ventures, Kodem Growth Partners, Acce...