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EnMAP will see our Earth in more than just colour
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
If everything goes according to plan, the new satellite will be transported to NASA's spaceport in Florida by an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft at the end of...
Remote sensing technology reduces urban air pollution
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
Vehicle emissions are the most significant source of air pollution in the urban environment worldwide, impacting the climate and the health of millions of peopl...
Tonga eruption sent ripples through Earth's ionosphere
Feb 04, 2022 (JPL)
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it unleashed a violent explosion with the equivalent force of 4 to 18 megatons of TNT, acco...
Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter in US
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
In an annual February 2 tradition, the groundhog emerged from winter hibernation in his burrow in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to test the weather. ...
Satellogic Announces Strategic Partnership With Palantir Technologies
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
This announcement builds on an existing collaboration between Satellogic and Palantir to field unique AI capabilities to the orbital edge. Last year, Satellogic...
Study shows 'shocking' way Earth's magnetic field produces plasma jets
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
The constant interaction between Earth's magnetic field and the sun's supersonic particles sometimes results in small-scale plasma jets that can weaken the barr...
China launches L-SAR 01A satellite for land observing
Jan 27, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 7:44 a.m. (Beijing Time) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and soon sent the L-SAR 01A satellite into preset o...
Satellogic completes transaction to become publicly traded company
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
In connection with the closing of the business combination and other transactions, Satellogic will receive gross proceeds of approximately $262 million. This to...
ESA supports the White House on greenhouse gas monitoring
Jan 25, 2022 (ESA)
With our climate on the brink of crisis, the COP26 conference, held in Scotland in November 2021, ended with a global agreement to accelerate action on climate....
The secrets of ancient Japanese tombs revealed thanks to satellite images
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
For these reasons, high-res satellite imagery was used. The results show that these tombs are oriented towards the arc of the rising sun, the Goddess Amaterasu ...
Particles formed in boreal forests affect clouds in the troposphere
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
Mixing upwards from the surface, these aerosol particles have the ability to influence the properties of clouds (e.g., increasing their reflectivity), potential...
Flying with the clouds
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
Aircraft cloud detection has become a basic method to determine the characteristics of cloud particle concentrations, liquid water content, and particle spectru...
Dimming Sun's rays should be off-limits, say experts
Jan 17, 2022 (AFP)
Even if injecting billions of sulphur particles into the middle atmosphere -- the most hotly debated plan for so-called solar radiation modification (SRM) -- tu...
Arase uncovers Geospace coupling between plasma waves and charged particles
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
A prominent signature of plasma - a state of matter characterized by freely roaming charged particles interacting via electromagnetic forces - is the generation...
Pixxel Partners with Rio Tinto to investigate benefits of hyperspectral satellite technology
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Pixxel's high-resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery has the potential to significantly reduce costs and timelines for exploration and improve monitoring of...
Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, UC Berkeley geochemists show that copper in soil and seawater acts as a catalyst to turn or...
Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Still unanswered, though, are the questions of how fast the Earth cooled and how long it might take for this ongoing cooling to bring the aforementioned heat-dr...
SpaceX launches 44 SuperDove satellites for Planet Labs
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
These 44 satellites will join Planet's existing fleet of roughly 200 satellites in orbit. Planet has now launched 127 satellites across eight launches with Spac...
Manufacturing revenues for Remote Sensing to reach $76B by 2030
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
With the Earth Observation manufacturing market gearing up for another decade of growth to an estimated $76.1 billion in revenue, the latest study reflects prof...
How the Earth's tilt creates short, cold January days
Jan 11, 2022 (The Conversation)
There are two other important factors: First, the Earth is round, although it's not a perfect sphere. Second, its axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees relative to ...
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