Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit for the Kingdom of Morocco.
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2017
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The largest contiguous irrigation system on Earth, the Indus Basin provides water to 100 million people across South Asia. This basin is estimated to irrigate 45 million acres of farm land, and it's considered the bread basket ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2018
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A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe's next Vega launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth's vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA's decade-in-flight Proba-V.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 5, 2023
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Surface soil moisture (SSM) plays an important role in drought and flood monitoring, weather forecasting, among other natural resource activities, and is also critical in water and heat exchanges between land and atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- High above the Earth, clouds too thin to see cover the tropics. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a creative technique to identify the clouds' origins. Using several satellite data ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2012
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A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations.
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2024
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The "eye in the sky" has become a major part of research for segments of the scientific community. But how should it be trained?
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2018
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This summer, heat waves struck Europe, North Africa, the U.S. and Asia with temperatures reaching over 40°C in places—breaking many long-standing records. Images from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission show the scale of ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2022
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Fueled largely by climate change, our planet is being subjected to environmental changes that are having an unprecedented global impact on humans, animals and plants. Shockingly, in certain locations these changes are occurring ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 19, 2023
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Scheduled to launch no earlier than May 22, the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a collaboration between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), ...
Space Exploration
May 21, 2018
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