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Allen Coral Atlas completes map of the world's coral reefs using satellite imagery

Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)

Named for the late Paul G. Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, the Allen Coral Atlas was developed and implemented through a partnership now directe...

Gaofen 5-02 satellite launched from Taiyuan

Sep 08, 2021 (XNA)

The administration said the satellite was carried by a Long March 4C carrier rocket that blasted off at 11:01 am and then successfully entered orbit, marking th...

Covid restrictions bring blip in better air quality: UN

Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)

A new report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that Covid-19 restrictions last year temporarily improved air quality in a number of pl...

Meteosat Gen 3 takes major step towards its first launch

Sep 03, 2021 (ESA)

Following on from the success of the first and second generation of Meteosat satellites, the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) will soon take over the reins to en...

BlackSky secures investment from Palantir

Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)

Through the pilot project, BlackSky automatically delivered insights and intelligence to Palantir customers within minutes of collection, without any human inte...

Satellite observes power outages in New Orleans

Sep 02, 2021 (JPL)

A team of scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) has mapped the outages using satellite data....

Study links polar vortex disruption with extreme winter weather

Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)

According to a new study, published Thursday in the journal Science, rising temperatures in the Arctic and subsequent disruptions to the polar vortex have incre...

A Lunar-based Soft X-ray Imager for the Earth's magnetosphere

Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)

However, relying on single-point or multi-point in-situ measurements is not enough for grasping the global effects caused by the solar wind disturbance, which i...

Ball Aerospace selected for two Landsat next studies

Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)

The two six-month studies will look at instrument architectures and designs for the next generation of Landsat. "Users around the world rely on the continuity a...

GOLD's bird's-eye reveals dynamics in Earth's interface to space

Aug 31, 2021 (SPX)

GOLD is in geostationary orbit, which means it orbits around Earth at the same pace the planet turns and "hovers" over the same spot overhead. This allows GOLD ...

Precipitation in central Asia shaped by sea surface temperature over tropical pacific and north Atlantic

Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest that the tropical Pacific decadal variability (TPDV) and ...

The Congo rainforest makes its own spring rain

Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)

The answer is the rainforest itself, according to a new study published in the AGU journal JGR: Biogeosciences, which publishes research on the interactions amo...

Protecting the ozone layer also protects Earth's ability to sequester carbon

Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)

"We know the ozone layer is connected to climate. We know greenhouse gases affect the ozone layer. But what we've never done before this is connect the ozone la...

On the trail of methane sources in Scandinavia

Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)

Three measurement aircraft, 20 balloons and three Earth observation satellites are providing data about the region. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentr...

Further evidence of 200 million-year cycle for Earth's magnetic field

Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers performed thermal and microwave (a technique which is unique to the University of Liverpool) paleomagnetic analysis on rock samples from ancient lav...

Leak and destroy: On the hunt for climate killing gas

Aug 22, 2021 (AFP)

His roughly basketball-sized container was filled with CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), a potent greenhouse gas that is perfectly legal to possess but which has been...

BRICS to set up remote-sensing satellite network

Aug 19, 2021 (XNA)

The heads of national space agencies in BRICS countries met on Wednesday via video link and signed the Agreement on the Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Sate...

By chance, ozone treaty prevented 'scorched Earth' climate

Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)

If the Montreal Protocol had not banned the manmade gases that dissolve naturally occurring ozone, by 2100 they would have heated up the planet's surface 2.5 de...

NASA unveils new interactive website ahead of Landsat 9 launch

Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)

Members of the media are also invited to a remote media briefing Tuesday, Aug. 31, tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT. The briefing will allow reporters to a...

Europe's Vega rocket blasts off with Airbus observation satellite

Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)

It was the second launch this year of the Vega, a crucial component of European ambitions to compete with rivals such as Elon Musk's SpaceX in the booming comme...