Saturn is best known for two things: its iconic ring structures and its large system of natural satellites. Currently, 146 moons and moonlets have been discovered orbiting the ringed giant, 24 of which are regular satellites. ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 14, 2023
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Today's weather satellites provide scientists with a unique opportunity to evaluate the abilities of various reanalysis datasets to depict multilayer tropospheric water vapor. A research team undertook a study to assess multilayer ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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Scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology have successfully constructed an inference and prediction system of the Indonesian ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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Combining satellite technology with machine learning may allow scientists to better track and prepare for climate-induced natural hazards, according to research presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2023
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Since mid-September 2022, NASA-funded instruments have been hitching rides on commercial aircraft and collecting environmental data over New Zealand. The collaboration with Air New Zealand is the first known data-collecting ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 13, 2022
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ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite mission has just taken a big stretch. Engineers have gently unfolded this new satellite's huge five-panel solar wing to test that it will deploy correctly once it is in space. The solar ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 22, 2022
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The top of the atmosphere is the agreed-upon border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. Satellites traverse this space, facilitating global communications and imaging the planet, measuring changing ice coverage heights ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 17, 2022
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Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers transformed agriculture as we know it during the Green Revolution, catapulting crop yields and food security to new heights. Yet, despite improvements in crop nitrogen use efficiency, fears ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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The Pandora mission, co-led by a national laboratory and a NASA flight center, has passed a crucial step on its path to study stars and planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets.
Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2022
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NASA will launch four Earth science missions in 2022 to provide scientists with more information about fundamental climate systems and processes including extreme storms, surface water and oceans, and atmospheric dust. Scientists ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 13, 2021
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