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NASA Team Demonstrates Science on a Shoestring with Greenhouse Gas-Measuring Instrument
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
Emily Wilson, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is teaming with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, or LLNL, to ...
Aeolus in launch tower
Aug 15, 2018 (ESA)
Aeolus was sealed from view in its Vega rocket fairing last week, after which it was rolled out to the launch pad, hoisted into the launch tower and joined to t...
PlanetWatchers Launches Foresights Analytics Platform to Advance Commercial Forestry
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
PlanetWatchers, a geospatial intelligence and enterprise natural resource monitoring services company, is the first startup in the new space revolution ecosyste...
Aeolus sealed from view
Aug 10, 2018 (ESA)
Since its arrival at the launch site in early July, Aeolus has been thoroughly tested and fuelled with hydrazine. Like all of ESA's Earth Explorer missions, Aeo...
NASA satellites assist states in estimating abundance of key wildlife species
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
By combining NASA satellite imagery with wildlife surveys conducted by state natural resources agencies, a team of researchers at Utah State University and the ...
New satellite map shows ground deformation after Indonesian quake
Aug 09, 2018 (JPL)
The false-color map shows the amount of permanent surface movement that occurred, almost entirely due to the quake, over a 6-day period between satellite images...
US Army scientists create new technique for modeling turbulence in the atmosphere
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
This new technology could allow Soldiers to predict weather patterns sooner using the computers at hand and more effectively assess flight conditions for aerial...
Planetary Defense Has New Tool in Weather Satellite Lightning Detector
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"GLM detects these meteors when they become brighter than the full Moon," says lead author and meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA...
Radar better than weather balloon for measuring boundary layer
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
The boundary layer is the layer of atmosphere that is closest to the Earth, less than one mile from the surface. Because it is the layer that is most affected b...
Australia facing increased intense rain storms
Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)
The team of international scientists, led by Dr Selma Guerreiro at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK, has for the first time found increases i...
Urban geophone array offers new look at northern Los Angeles basin
Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)
Seismologists think these sedimentary basins may act a "waveguide" to focus and trap energy from an earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, so understandi...
What is causing more extreme precipitation in the northeast?
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
A Dartmouth study finds that hurricanes and tropical storms are the primary cause of this increase, followed by thunderstorms along fronts and extratropical cyc...
Satellite tracking reveals Philippine waters are important for endangered whale sharks
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The Philippines is an important hotspot for whale sharks and globally hosts the third largest known population of whale sharks (whaleshark.org). While the speci...
Satellite maps reveal spread of mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia
Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)
To measure the physical scope of mountain coal mining in the region, researchers at Duke University designed a model to analyze satellite images of mountains in...
Preparing to fly the wind mission Aeolus
Jul 25, 2018 (ESA)
Aeolus will carry a sophisticated atmospheric laser Doppler instrument, dubbed Aladin. Combining two powerful lasers, a large telescope and extremely sensitive ...
Red Sea flushes faster from far flung volcanoes
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Waters occupying depths from 300 to 2000 meters in the Red Sea are recognized as the warmest and saltiest deep water in the world, with near-homogenous temperat...
NASA Debuts Online Toolkit to Promote Commercial Use of Satellite Data
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
With the Remote Sensing Toolkit, users will now be able to find, analyze and utilize the most relevant data for their research, business projects or conservatio...
Abrupt cloud clearing events over southeast Atlantic Ocean are new piece in climate puzzle
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
Although clouds grow and dissipate all of the time, scientists think that these low-lying clouds off the coast of subtropical Africa are being disrupted not sim...
Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth's ancient biosphere
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Nature, represent the oldest measurement of atmospheric oxygen isotopes by nearly a billion years. The results support pr...
Laser experiments lend insight into metal core at heart of the Earth
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
The findings could aid understanding of how the Earth was formed from elements in space, some 4 billion years ago. They could also shed light on the fundamental...
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