News tagged with polar satellite
Infrared sounder on NASA's suomi NPP starts its mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA's newest polar-orbiting satellite, designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth's atmosphere and improve weather forecasts ...
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Feb 09, 2012 |
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VIIRS eastern hemisphere image: Behind the scenes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Suomi NPP satellite is in a polar orbit around Earth at an altitude of 512 miles (about 824 kilometers), but the perspective of the new Eastern hemisphere 'Blue Marble' is from 7,918 miles ...
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Feb 03, 2012 |
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Nasa renames earth-observing mission in honor of satellite pioneer
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who is recognized widely as "the father of satellite ...
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006
(AP) -- Federal officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically in the past five years - for the worse.
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Watching the birth of an iceberg
(PhysOrg.com) -- After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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NASA to launch weather-climate satellite Friday
The US space agency is preparing to launch a satellite Friday that will send back data on climate and weather to better help forecasters predict major storms and other changes in the environment.
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Oct 27, 2011 |
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NASA readies new type of Earth-observing satellite for launch
NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables.
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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Indian-French satellite put into orbit
An Indian-French satellite that will study monsoon patterns and global warming was launched on Wednesday from a space centre in southern India.
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Oct 12, 2011 |
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Arctic ice cover hits historic low: scientists
The area covered by Arctic sea ice reached its lowest point this week since the start of satellite observations in 1972, German researchers announced on Saturday.
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Sep 10, 2011 |
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Tohoku tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica
A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away.
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Aug 08, 2011 |
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Pioneering ERS environment satellite retires
After 16 years spent gathering a wealth of data that has revolutionized our understanding of Earth, ESA's veteran ERS-2 satellite is being retired. This pioneering mission has not only advanced science, but ...
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford and NASA researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, concluding one of the space agency's longest-running projects.
May 04, 2011 |
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Polar ice adding more to rising seas: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study -- the longest to date of changes ...
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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Satellite Used in Polar Research Enters Retirement
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a long career providing communications support, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) 1 is retiring. From 1983 to 1998, TDRS-1 allowed NASA to talk to other satellites in orbit. ...
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Jun 25, 2010 |
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Radar satellites aim to create most precise 3D pictures of Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A German radar satellite TanDEM-X was launched on June 21 by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to join an identical satellite, TerraSAR-X, which was launched in 2007. The two satellites will ...
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Jun 22, 2010 |
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