EARTH OBSERVATION - ROBO DAILY

China set to launch two advanced marine satellites in 2021

Aug 19, 2020 (XNA)

Jiang Xingwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former director of the National Satellite Ocean Application Service, said in a statement...

NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field

Aug 18, 2020 (SPX)

Earth's magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the so...

Sentinel-1C radar antenna has spread its wings for the first time

Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)

Sentinel-1C is the third of the Sentinel-1 radar satellite series and will ensure data continuity for the many services offered by the EU's Copernicus programme...

Meteorological satellites keep eye on clouds

Aug 16, 2020 (XNA)

High above their heads, several Chinese meteorological satellites are also staring at moving cloud clusters and transmitting data and images back to an inconspi...

Cluster's 20 years of studying Earth's magnetosphere

Aug 12, 2020 (ESA)

As the only planet known to host life, Earth occupies a truly unique place in the Solar System. The Cluster mission, launched in the summer of 2000, was designe...

Clemson doctoral candidate uses rockets to surf the Alaskan sky

Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)

Mesquita and a multi-institutional research team documented "surfer waves" in the upper atmosphere that create a pipeline of energy between layers in space. Jus...

Rocket sees curling waves above Alaskan sky

Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)

Scientists photograph the gas, which is not harmful to humans, after it instantaneously ignites when exposed to oxygen. The findings were published in JGR: Spac...

Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie

Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)

It wasn't easy: To capture Earth as an alien world, the researchers had to use the moon as a giant mirror, recording sunlight that had passed through our planet...

Contract signed to build Europe's carbon dioxide monitoring mission

Aug 03, 2020 (ESA)

With a contract secured worth euro 445 million, OHB will lead the industrial consortium to start building the two satellites. As the main contractor, OHB is res...

Satellite survey shows California's sinking coastal hotspots

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

The most relevant quantity for assessing the impacts of sea-level change on these communities is the relative sea-level rise - the elevation change between the ...

New Space satellite pinpoints industrial methane emissions

Jul 30, 2020 (ESA)

GHGSat is a New Space initiative that draws on Copernicus Sentinel-5P data for mapping methane hotspots - and its Claire satellite has now collected more than 6...

China's newly-launched satellite to boost surveying, mapping capabilities

Jul 28, 2020 (XNA)

The Ziyuan III 03 satellite was sent into orbit by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. It will pro...

Decadal predictability of North Atlantic blocking and the NAO

Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)

Can multi-annual variations in the frequency of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking and mid-latitude circulation regimes be skillfully predicted? Recent advance...

Reduction in commercial flights due to COVID-19 leading to less accurate weather forecasts

Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)

A new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the world lost 50-75% of its aircraft weather observations between March and May of this year, w...

China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite

Jul 27, 2020 (XNA)

A joint statement from the China National Space Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources said the Ziyuan 3-03 lifted off at 11:13 am atop a Long Mar...

Earth's vibrations quieted during COVID-19 lockdowns

Jul 24, 2020 (UPI)

A new study, published in the journal Science, suggests the COVID-19 pandemic -- and the resulting restrictions on businesses and the movements of citizens -- l...

Earth is made, on average, of cubes

Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)

Science has steadily moved beyond Plato's conjectures, looking instead to the atom as the building block of the universe. Yet Plato seems to have been onto some...

A Walk Through the Rainbow with PACE

Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)

PACE's high-resolution instruments will see ocean and atmosphere features in unparalleled detail when the mission launches in 2023. By measuring the intensity o...

Fallout from COVID-19 pandemic making weather forecasts less accurate

Jul 17, 2020 (UPI)

According to new research, weather forecasts have gotten less accurate over the course of the pandemic, as a result of the decrease in commercial airline flight...

Syncing a NASA laser with an ESA radar for a new look at sea ice

Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)

When the maneuvers are complete later this summer, the two satellites will pass over a swath of the Arctic within a few hours of each other. That synchronous st...