Wednesday… Await Thursday’s Move: EUMETSAT Launched MetOp-B…Commissioning Begins (Launch)
[SatNews] Tuesday the launch... and now comes the commissioning with better weather predictions...”
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Here’s Looking @ Earth… Gaseous Ganders (Imagery—NASA)
[SatNews] In the early 1970s, oil exploration turned up vast reservoirs of oil and gas under the Bah?a de Campeche, located along the southern margin of the Gulf of Mexico, just west of Mexico’s Yucat?n Peninsula.
Read MoreRUAG Space… Crucial Components Creation Completed (Satellite)
[SatNews] The second of a total of three European climate and weather satellites from the MetOp series is ready for launch...
Read MoreEUMETSAT + China State Oceanic Administration… Dual Data Deliveries (EO)
[SatNews] EUMETSAT has signed a cooperation agreement with China State Oceanic Administration for the exchange of...
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… DOM Deliberations (Imagery—NASA)
When rivers flow to the sea, they usually carry sediment and dissolved organic material—dead and decaying plant material—with them.
Read MoreJAXA… Scoping The Sun (Satellite)
[SatNews] While the most powerful earthquake to occur since records began hit Japan in 2011, triggering a massive...
Read MoreMSG-3 Spins Out The Weather Report …First Images
[SatNews] It scans Earth’s surface and atmosphere every 15 minutes in 12 different wavelengths, to track cloud development.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Siberia Sizzles (Imagery—NASA)
[SatNews] For more than a decade, scientists have used data from instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites to...
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… The Attack Of The Aerosols (Imagery)
[SatNews] NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the tiny airborne particles—aerosols—that arrive by air in North America each year.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Drought Of Historic Proportions (Imagery)
[SatNews] Farmers across the United States hoped for rain in July 2012 as a drought of historic proportions parched...
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