Here’s Looking @ Earth… An Icy Rupture
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. A rapid retreat started in February, near the end of the Antarctic summer.
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Here’s Looking @ Earth: Overflow In Nambia
Water levels on the Zambezi River in southern Africa remained high on April 14, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the swollen river, which had destroyed crops and forced thousands of evacuations in Namibia’s Caprivi region as of April 12, reported the AFP news service.
Read MoreMessage on World Meteorological Day
On the occasion of World Meteorological Day, 23 March, the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, made the following statement:
Read MoreNOAA-19 Orbit Okayed
The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) launched on February 6, 2009, has completed a comprehensive 45-day on-orbit verification period.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Terra Trackin’ Ships
On March 4, 2009, the skies over the northeast Pacific Ocean were streaked with clouds that form around the particles in ship exhaust.
Read MoreNASA + Cisco Getting Into The Planetary Skin
NASA and Cisco Inc. now have a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze, and report data on
Read MoreGOES-O Gantry Greeting Date Set
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived Tuesday morning via a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, California.
Read MoreMore On GOES-O From Boeing
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA has announced the second of three, next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will undergo final preparations for launch this spring.
Read MoreNo Es Bueno En Argentina Para Aqua
Crops in Argentina were taking a beating in February 2009 — according to reports from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), a severe drought in southern South America had severely affected corn, cotton, and soybean crops in the country.
Read MoreChecking Climate Conditions Is OCO’s Goal Once Launched
The launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, aboard a Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for February 24th.
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