ESA’s TIGER African Water Project Extended
ESA kicked off the second phase of its TIGER initiative at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey.
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CERES Contract Captured
NASA's Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument.
Read MoreNASA Warms Up to Breaking the Ice With a Pod
Testing out new equipment is always an interesting endeavor and soon NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
Read MoreHere’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.
Read MoreHere’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.
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