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ICESat-2 to measure movement, thickness of polar sea ice
Sep 14, 2018 (UPI)
To better understand how the entirety of Earth's climate will change as the planet warms, scientists need to resolve the many mysteries of polar climate change....
'Raise ambition level' in climate change fight: UN weather chief
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
"The ambition level has been too low," WMO chief Petteri Taalas told reporters in Geneva, warning that the world is on track this century to see three to four t...
Protection for the ozone layer: sugar molecules bind harmful CFCs
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
Freon 11 is a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC). These substances were previously used, among other things, as coolants in refrigerators and as foaming agents for polyur...
China launches new marine satellite
Sep 11, 2018 (XNA)
A Long March-2C rocket carrying the HY-1C satellite took off at 11:15 a.m. from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satell...
Aeolus laser shines light on wind
Sep 06, 2018 (ESA)
Lofted into space on a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana just two weeks ago, ESA's Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite has been designed to measu...
How scientists are tracking Florida's red tides with satellites and smartphones
Sep 06, 2018 (SPX)
Under normal conditions, water quality tests find, at most, a few hundred K. brevis cells per liter of water-not enough to cause problems. But in August 2018, i...
PlanetWatchers Announces Breakthrough SAR Analytics Platform
Sep 06, 2018 (SPX)
World-renowned remote sensing specialist Professor Dirk Hoekman recently joined PlanetWatchers' radar team and directs the company's new SAR initiatives. With g...
Ocean satellite Sentinel-6A beginning to take shape
Sep 04, 2018 (SPX)
In a complex operation, the Airbus satellite specialists hoisted the approximately five-metre-high satellite platform with pin-point precision over the drive mo...
China is hot spot of ground-level ozone pollution
Sep 04, 2018 (SPX)
"We find that in the most populous urban regions of eastern and central China, there are more than 60 days in a calendar year with surface ozone levels exceedin...
UB scientists await launch of NASA ice-monitoring satellite
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
They're excited, but nervous, too. That's what happens when your future research is reliant on equipment that's going to be hurled, atop a flaming rocket, into ...
Wind mission ready for next phase
Aug 27, 2018 (ESA)
The Aeolus satellite was launched on a Vega rocket in the evening of 22 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With a launch mass of 1360 kg, ...
A study by MSU scientists will help specify the models of the Earth atmosphere circulation
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
All these natural processes are usually turbulent. The first step to turbulence is the loss of stability by a permanent flow causing vortexes to spontaneously a...
Teledyne e2v ultraviolet laser detector technology deployed on Aeolus
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Contracted by Airbus Defence and Space, Toulouse, in 2003, with flight model deliveries in 2005, Teledyne e2v developed a unique Charge Coupled Device (CCD) typ...
NASA captures monsoon rains bringing flooding to India
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
The summer monsoon is a regular feature this time of year in India, and it can bring heavy rains to the region. However, periodically areas of low pressure can ...
European wind survey satellite launched from French Guyana
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
The launch of the "Aeolus" satellite -- named after the guardian of wind in Greek mythology -- took place at 2120 GMT Wednesday, after a 24-hour delay due to ad...
Aeolus wind satellite launched
Aug 23, 2018 (ESA)
Carrying the 1360 kg Aeolus satellite, the Vega rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:20 GMT (23:20 CEST, 18:20 local time) ...
NASA launching Advanced Laser to measure Earth's changing ice
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to wi...
Severe Storms Show off their Plume-age
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
Easily identifiable in satellite imagery, the Above Anvil Cirrus Plume, or AACP, looks like a plume of smoke emanating out from the top of what, in all likeliho...
Earth more solar exposed with rapid magnetic field reversals
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
The international research team found that magnetic field reversals - whereby the magnetic south pole became the magnetic north pole and vice versa - could happ...
First satellite to measure global winds set for launch
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus mission -- named for the guardian of wind in Greek mythology -- promises to improve short-term weather forecasting and ...
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