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Seeing Photosynthesis from Space: NASA Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Plant Health
NASA scientists have
established a new way to use
satellites to measure what's
occurring inside plants at a
cellular level. Plants grow
... > full story
Distorted GPS Signals Reveal Hurricane Wind Speeds
Researchers have found a way
to do something completely
different with GPS: Measure
and map the wind speeds of
hurricanes. The new
technique could help
... > full story
Continuous Satellite Monitoring of Ice Sheets Needed to Better Predict Sea-Level Rise
The length of the satellite
record for the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets is
currently too short to tell
if the recently reported
... > full story
Vegetation on Earth: Stunning Satellite Imagery Depicting Vegetation Around the World
Although 75 percent of the
planet is an ocean of blue,
the remaining 25 percent of
Earth's surface is a dynamic
green. Data from the Visible ... > full story
- Seeing Photosynthesis from Space: NASA Scientists Use Satellites to Measure Plant Health
- Distorted GPS Signals Reveal Hurricane Wind Speeds
- Continuous Satellite Monitoring of Ice Sheets Needed to Better Predict Sea-Level Rise
- Vegetation on Earth: Stunning Satellite Imagery Depicting Vegetation Around the World
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GOES-R Improvements to Provide Stunning, Continuous Full-Disk Imagery
July 16, 2013 — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images of Earth at five-minute ... > full story -
Mapping Sea Salt from Orbit: Building Better Ocean and Climate Models
May 31, 2013 — Climate is greatly influenced by the flow of heat energy carried by ocean currents. But precisely quantifying the mixing between the ocean and the atmosphere is hampered by a lack of detail in models ... > full story -
NASA Ships Sensors for Seafaring Satellite to France
May 23, 2013 — Three NASA-built instruments that are integral components of the next in a series of U.S./European ocean altimetry satellites have arrived in France for integration with their spacecraft in ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story -
For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision
April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story -
New Live Bi-Ocular Animations of Two Oceans Now Available
April 5, 2013 — NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 weather satellites sit 60 degrees apart in a fixed orbit over the eastern and western U.S., respectively, providing forecasters with a look at the movement of weather ... > full story -
First Images Released from Newest Earth Observation Satellite
March 21, 2013 — NASA and the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which was launched Feb. ... > full story -
Space Race Underway to Create Quantum Satellite
February 28, 2013 — A new article describes how a quantum space race is under way to create the world's first global quantum-communication ... > full story -
NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings
February 28, 2013 — A new satellite that will detect the lightning inside storm clouds may lead to valuable improvements in tornado detection. The GOES-R satellite is currently being built with new technology that may ... > full story -
Landsat 5 Sets Guinness World Record for 'Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite'
February 12, 2013 — Landsat 5 successfully set the new Guinness World Records title for 'Longest-operating Earth observation satellite' as stated in an e-mail from Guinness World Records sent to NASA Goddard Space ... > full story
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