Red Planet’s Severe Storms Offer Cleansing Properties
Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
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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 MoreMakaLani’s Mahalo Nui Loa
MakaLani, LLC of Hawaii has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with RapidEye AG of Brandenburg, Germany, to be the distributor in the United States of RapidEye satellite based optical data and services to the United States Government, focusing on the Defense and the Intelligence Community.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Lava + Ash Sally Forth From La Cumbre Volcano
In early April 2009, La Cumbre Volcano on Isla Fernandina in the Galapagos Islands erupted.
Read MoreMDA Goes Solo — RapidEye Agrees
A vote of confidence from RapidEye was validated in a new contractual agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), in which MDA will be the sole supplier of direct downlink solutions for RapidEye's international ground station customers.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Redoubt’s Volcanic Lahars Threatened Oil Facility
In addition to volcanic ash, the eruption of Alaska’s Mount Redoubt posed another hazard in early April 2009 — the volcano’s activity sent lahars (muddy volcanic avalanches) through Drift River Valley, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. An oil storage facility, the Drift River Oil Terminal, is located in the river valley, and a catastrophic lahar could have caused an oil spill.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… A Hole Of Many Colors
Surrounded by darker, deeper ocean waters, coral atolls often glow in vibrant hues of turquoise, teal, peacock blue, or aquamarine. Belize’s Lighthouse Reef Atoll fits this description, with its shallow waters covering light-colored coral: the combination of water and pale corals creates varying shades of blue-green.
Read MoreAeroGrid Obtain SatImagery From DigitalGlobe
AeroGRID has signed an agreement with DigitalGlobe to resell the latter's high-resolution satellite imagery.
Read MoreRapidEye’s Imagery To Enter New Markets With Russian Distributor
RapidEye, who owns and operates their own constellation of Earth observation (EO) satellites, now has a partnership with the Moscow based company Sovzond, who will be the only distributor of RapidEye satellite imagery for markets in Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uszbekistan, Kyrgystan, and Turkmenistan.
Read MoreA Positive Partnership: Numerex + Geoforce
Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) and Geoforce are expanding their partnership to deliver innovative, flexible inventory asset tracking services throughout the world.
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