NASA launches satellite to explore where air meets space
NASA launched a satellite on Thursday night to explore the mysterious, dynamic region where air meets space.
Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2019
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News tagged with weather satellites
NASA estimates Imelda's extreme rainfall
NASA estimated extreme rainfall over eastern Texas from the remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations.
Environment
Sep 20, 2019
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NASA infrared data shows heavy rain potential along gulf from Imelda
One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones is using infrared data that provides temperature information. The AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a look at those temperatures in Tropical Depression ...
Environment
Sep 18, 2019
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Satellites to reveal sea state and much more than the eye can see
UNSW Sydney engineers are developing new satellite technology that can be used to determine the state of the seas as well as a number of other useful applications.
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2019
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Data assimilation method offers improved hurricane forecasting
Operational models for severe weather forecasting predicted Hurricane Harvey would become a Category 1 hurricane in 2017, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Instead, it became a massive Category ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2019
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Smoke from Canadian fires drifts into United States
Canada has been battling a very active and destructive fire season on multiple fronts this year. A warming climate, very dry environment, and more extreme weather including severe thunderstorms has led to massive wildfires ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2019
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Two tiny supercomputing Pioneer nanosatellites launched
The latest ESA Partnership Projects mission has launched two tiny supercomputing nanosatellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from Vostochny in Russia.
Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2019
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NASA tracked small asteroid before it broke up in atmosphere
When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2019
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COSMIC-2 soars into orbit aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
COSMIC-2, a mission of six satellites designed to improve weather forecasts and space weather monitoring, blasted into orbit at 2:30 a.m. ET today, June 25, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2019
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Snow monitoring at the Sierra Nevada peaks offer the first medium-term data sets
When the Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrology research group at the University of Cordoba, led by Professor María José Polo, got to the Spanish Sierra Nevada in 2002, there were no weather stations above the height of 1,200 meters, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2019
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