EARTH OBSERVATION - INDO DAILY

NOAA'S JPSS-2 satellite passes critical design review

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

JPSS-2, or Joint Polar Satellite System-2, will join NOAA-20 in a series of polar-orbiting satellites to monitor the Earth's atmosphere, land and oceans. NASA b...

NASA Evaluates Commercial Small-Sat Earth Data for Science

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington issued blanket purchase agreements for the "Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot" program...

Scientists develop a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field

Oct 05, 2018 (SPX)

The technique, documented this week in Nature Communications, fills a gap between measurements made at the Earth's surface and at much higher altitude by orbiti...

UM researchers find precipitation thresholds regulate carbon exchange

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation Research Scientist Zhihua Liu and colleagues compared atmospheric measurements and satellite observations to cl...

ICESat-2 Laser Fires for 1st Time, Measures Antarctic Height

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

"We were all waiting with bated breath for the lasers to turn on and to see those first photons return," said Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, the project manager for IC...

New airborne campaigns to explore snowstorms, river deltas, climate

Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)

These studies will explore important, but not-well-understood, aspects of Earth system processes and were competitively selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture...

Scientists locate parent lightning strokes of sprites

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

Based on the Lightning Effects Research Platform (LERP), a research team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported t...

How Earth sheds heat into space

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

But the Earth is an incredibly messy system, with many complicated, interacting parts that can affect this process. Scientists have thus found it difficult to e...

Three Earth Explorer ideas selected

Sep 24, 2018 (ESA)

The decision follows the release of a call for ideas in September 2017. Out of the 21 proposals submitted, ESA's Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO)...

Quick and not-so-dirty: A rapid nano-filter for clean water

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

Simple to make and simple to scale up, the technology harnesses naturally occurring nano-structures that grow on liquid metals. The RMIT University and Universi...

Scientists ID Three Causes of Earth's Spin Axis Drift

Sep 21, 2018 (JPL)

Earth is not a perfect sphere. When it rotates on its spin axis - an imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles - it drifts and wobbles. These...

Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to Gaia 2.0

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

For around half a century, the 'Gaia' hypothesis has provided a unique way of understanding how life has persisted on Earth. It champions the idea that living o...

ECOSTRESS Maps LA's Hot Spots

Sep 19, 2018 (JPL)

ECOSTRESS measures surface temperature - the temperature you would feel if you touched the surface of something - rather than the air temperature typically repo...

NASA's GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth

Sep 19, 2018 (SPX)

The instrument was launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on Jan. 25, 2018, onboard the SES-14 satellite and reached geostationary orbit in June 2018. After check...

NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Track Earth's Changing Ice

Sep 17, 2018 (SPX)

ICESat-2 lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on United Launch Alliance's final Delta II rocket. Ground stations in Svalbard, Nor...

New kid on the block picks up relay for ozone

Sep 17, 2018 (ESA)

Protecting life on Earth from the Sun's harmful rays of ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer is a very important, yet fragile, part of Earth's atmosphere. In ...

Copernicus Sentinel maps Florence hurricane flood

Sep 17, 2018 (ESA)

Although this mighty hurricane was downgraded to a category 1 storm before it made landfall, the momentum the storm generated on its long trip across the Atlant...

Eyes in the sky aim to protect Earth's rainforests, resources

Sep 15, 2018 (AFP)

The pictures are taken every day at 10:30 in the morning by American satellites, offering a detailed view of every three to five meters on the ground. An algori...

Aeolus wows with first wind data

Sep 14, 2018 (ESA)

Florence Rabier, Director General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), said, "We always knew that Aeolus would be an exceptional m...

Help make a better world land map with NASA App

Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)

The project is a part of GLOBE Observer, a citizen science program that lets you contribute meaningful data to NASA and the science community. The GLOBE Observe...