China’s carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons
Credit: Dongxu Yang About six gigatons -- roughly 12 times the mass of all living humans -- of carbon appears ...
Tag: Satellite Missions/Shuttles
The anatomy of a planet
ETH researchers analyse marsquakesCredit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of ...
Mini radar could find water and habitable tunnels on the Moon or Mars
A miniature radar device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and even hollowed out ...
New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth
For the first time, stealth coronal mass ejections can be detected before they wreak havoc on Earth without the need ...
A machine learning breakthrough: using satellite images to improve human lives
Berkeley-based project could support action worldwide on climate, health and povertyCredit: (Photo by NASA via Pxfuel) Berkeley -- More than ...
Experts tackle modern slavery in Greek strawberry fields using satellite technology
Credit: Ioannis Kougkoulos, Kornilia Hatzinikolaou A consortium of modern slavery experts, led by the University of Nottingham, have assisted the ...
Physicists describe sun’s electric field
Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning ...
Galactic gamma ray bursts predicted last year show up right on schedule
Sherlock Holmes story gives clue to successful prediction of bursts from nearby magnetarCredit: Mikhail Denissenya, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Magnetars are ...
SwRI’s Bolton receives NSS Space Pioneer Award
National Space Society recognizes accomplishments in opening the space frontierCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- July 12, 2021 -- ...
Q-CTRL awarded $3.5 million grant from Australian government for space-based quantum sensors
Company to expand the development and manufacture of advanced sensors for climate data monitoring, mining, defense applications and moreCredit: Q-CTRL ...
To predict underwater volcano eruptions, scientist looks at images from space
A new study monitored satellite images to obtain sea discoloration data as a novel indicator in detecting if an underwater ...
Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
A study published in Nature Astronomy concludes that known geochemical processes can't explain the levels of methane measured by the ...
CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
Credit: ESA The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
Credit: NASA/SAO/NCSU/Borkowski et al. Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra ...