News tagged with satellite measurements
What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even ...
Antarctic glacier thinning at alarming rate
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The thinning of a gigantic glacier in Antarctica is accelerating, scientists warned today.
Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, ...
Satellites show the way to new oil finds
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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A new map of the Earth’s gravitational force based on satellite measurements makes it much less resource intensive to find new oil deposits. The map will be particularly useful as the ice melts in the oil-rich ...
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Satellites search out South Pole snowfields
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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As skiers across the world pay close attention to the state of the snow on the slopes, there are a different group of scientific snow-watchers looking closely at a South Pole snowfield this January.
Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since NASA researchers began assembling the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) in the 1990s, the worldwide network of ground-based aerosol sensors has grown to 400 sites across seven continents.
Researchers use satellites to measure inland floods
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Dec 17, 2008 |
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Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world's oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found.
Equivalence principle in space test
May 11, 2009 |
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Since Galileo Galilei and Newton, the assumption is valid that inert and heavy mass are equivalent. This is, however, questioned by new physical theories such as the String theory. Now, the equivalence principle ...
The first global map of ammonia emissions measured from space
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first complete map of global ammonia emissions has recently been achieved using to satellite data. It reveals an underestimation of some of the ammonia concentrations detected by current ...
SMOS arrives safely at Russian launch site
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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After leaving Thales Alenia Space in the south of France on 15 September, ESA’s SMOS Earth Explorer has arrived safely at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, where it will be prepared for launch on ...
GOCE satellite achieves drag-free perfection (w/Videos)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's gravity mission GOCE has achieved a first in the history of satellite technology. The sophisticated electric propulsion system has shown that it is able to keep the satellite completely ...
Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
GOCE prepares for shipment to Russia
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Jul 24, 2008 |
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Launching in just two months' time, GOCE – now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk ...
British team trek to North Pole to measure sea ice
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Mar 01, 2009 |
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Three British explorers have set out on a 90-day skiing expedition to the North Pole, measuring sea ice thickness the whole way to find out exactly how fast it is disappearing, according to the Catlin Arctic ...
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