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What does Earth's core have in common with salad dressing? Maybe this
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Wit...
Ocean activity is key controller of summer monsoons
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
Each summer, a climatic shift brings persistent wind and rain to much of Southeast Asia, in the form of a seasonal monsoon. The general cause of the monsoon is ...
Global TanDEM-X forest map is available
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has created a special dataset to monitor, assess, and protect the current state and...
Ozone monitoring team spots fingerprints on Earth's atmosphere
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
The team also estimates ozone amounts in two areas of Earth's atmosphere. In the upper atmosphere (also called the stratosphere or "ozone layer"), ozone acts as...
SFL highlights microspace EO missions at IAA Symposium in Berlin
May 05, 2019 (SPX)
On Monday, May 6, at 13:30, SFL's Laura M. Bradbury will present, "On-Orbit Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring with the GHGSat Constellation." The paper discus...
How Atmospheric Sounding Transformed Weather Prediction
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
At the time, the only way to get a reading on atmospheric temperature was to dispatch high-altitude weather balloons, or radiosondes. Weather balloons collected...
Scientists track giant ocean vortex from space
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
Using 23 years of satellite data, the new findings show the Great Whirl is larger and longer-lived than scientists previously thought. At its peak, the giant wh...
OCO-3 Ready to Extend NASA's Study of Carbon
May 01, 2019 (JPL)
From its perch on the space station, OCO-3 will observe near-global measurements of carbon dioxide on land and sea, from just after sunrise to just before sunse...
What's behind the ground-breaking 3D habitat map of the Great Barrier Reef
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
The mapping project, '3D live habitats for the full extent of the Great Barrier Reef', will provide, for the first time, maps of the predicted coral types and u...
NASA Instrument to More Accurately Measure Ozone Discovered by Accident
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
His serendipitous discovery has led to the filing of a patent application for an instrument he calls the Rapid Ozone Experiment, or ROZE, and a berth aboard a N...
How NASA Earth Data Aids America, State by State
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Space for U.S." features 56 stories illustrating how NASA science has made an impact in every state in the nation as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto R...
Illuminating Gases in The Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse Gases
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
Research scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have created a new airborne instrument that can directly measure water vapor and flo...
Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
Our magnetic field affects numerous human activities, ranging from establishing the direction in smartphones to the flight of low-altitude satellites. It is the...
Arianespace to launch SAR satellite StriX-a aboard Vega for Japanese startup company Synspective
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
On April 18, 2019, Arianespace announced the signing of a launch service contract with Synspective for the launch of the satellite StriX-a (with a liftoff mass ...
Greek researchers enlist EU satellite against Aegean sea litter
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to determine if seaborne litter can be...
UNH researchers find unusual phenomenon in clouds triggers lightning flash
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
"This is the first time fast negative breakdown has ever been observed, so it's very exciting," said Ningyu Liu, professor of physics. "Despite over 250 years o...
NASA Invites You to 'Picture Earth' for Earth Day
Apr 15, 2019 (JPL)
NASA invites you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth social media event. Post a close-up photo on social media of your favorite natural ...
Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
Orangutans, like all great apes, build a sleeping nest in trees. Traditionally orangutan numbers are estimated by counting these nests from the ground. However,...
Declassified U2 spy plane images reveal bygone Middle Eastern archaeological features
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
Such a collection can represent a goldmine for landscape archaeologists like Emily Hammer of the University of Pennsylvania and Jason Ur of Harvard University. ...
Sun, moon and sea as part of a 'seismic probe'
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
Knowledge of subsurface stress or strain fluctuations is just as important for safety in construction and mining, for example, as it is for monitoring geologica...
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