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First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and More
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
"The data from ICESat-2 are really blowing our minds, and I'm really excited to see what people with different perspectives will do with it," said Lori Magruder...
NASA-Supported Monitoring Network Assesses Ozone Layer Threats
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
Locating and identifying this particular source of CFC-11 was possible in part because of a NASA-supported monitoring network for atmospheric gases that has bee...
New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
The most complete assessment ever of statistical uncertainty within the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) data product shows that the annual values ar...
Illegal ozone-depleting gases traced to China: study
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
Since 2013, annual emissions from northeastern China of the banned chemical CFC-11 have increased by about 7,000 tonnes, they reported in the peer-reviewed jour...
Airbus signs MOU with Hellenic Space Agency for future space cooperation
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
Established in 2018, the Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) is Greece's national body responsible for space and is part of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport an...
More detailed picture of Earth's mantle
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
According to a new analysis of cores drilled through the ocean crust, the mantle is made up of distinct sections of rock each with different chemical make-ups. ...
Arianespace to orbit Spanish SEOSat Ingenio Earth observation satellite
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
SEOSat/Ingenio is a high-resolution optical imaging mission of Spain - the flagship mission of the Spanish Space Strategic Plan. It will be launched along with ...
The air we breathe
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
One of the pollutants with the strongest evidence of health effects is nitrogen dioxide. In the EU, the largest contributor to nitrogen dioxide emissions is the...
New research finds unprecedented weakening of Asian summer monsoon
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
The new research used tree ring records to reconstruct the Asian summer monsoon back to 1566. The study, published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Lette...
Mission control 'saves science'
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
From flying groups of spacecraft in complex formations to dodging space debris and navigating the ever-changing conditions in space known as space weather, ESA'...
3D Earth in the making
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
Solid Earth refers to the crust, mantle and core. Because these parts of our world are completely hidden from view, understanding what is going on deep below ou...
New potential for tracking severe storms
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
Soon to celebrate 10 years in orbit, SMOS was built to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity to better understand the water cycle. While science benefits fro...
Exoplanet-hunting CubeSat photographs Los Angeles
May 17, 2019 (UPI)
ASTERIA, short for Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, is a miniaturized satellite made up of six cubed units measuring 4.5 inches on e...
Orbiting NASA instrument to examine Boston's carbon emissions, plant life
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Much closer to home, researchers in Boston have the critical job of validating the data that will be coming down from OCO-3 by comparing the measurements with t...
How Venus and Mars can teach us about Earth
May 14, 2019 (ESA)
Rewind 4.6 billion years from the present day to the planetary construction yard, and we see that all the planets share a common history: they were all born fro...
Joining forces on Earth science to benefit society
May 14, 2019 (ESA)
We are already in the grip of global change, and in the coming decades Earth's growing population will place even more pressure on vital resources such as fresh...
Spotlight on the pulse of our planet
May 14, 2019 (ESA)
ESA's holds its Living Planet Symposium - the largest Earth observation conference in the world - every three years, each time drawing more participants than th...
Space Station science looking at Earth
May 14, 2019 (ESA)
Many of the experiments that run on the International Space Station do not require astronaut intervention after the initial setup and periodic check-ups. The No...
At least 300 Himalayan yaks starve to death in India
May 12, 2019 (AFP)
Officials in the northeastern state of Sikkim said they received the first distress call from around 50 people cut off in the remote Mukuthang Valley in Decembe...
Arianespace to launch ESAIL satellite for exactEarth on Vega SSMS POC flight
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
The ESAIL satellite will be launched in a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at an altitude of 515 km. on a Vega SSMS rideshare flight in 2019 from the Guiana Space Ce...
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