Terra Sat Records Indonesian Mud Flow History
On May 29, 2006, a scalding mud volcano began erupting in a densely populated area in eastern Java, Indonesia.
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Egypt Wishes To Apply Remote Sensing Sats To Antiquities Search
According to the official MENA News Agency, satellites and remote sensing technology are going to assist Egypt in the discovery and recovery of antiquities.
Read MoreA Summer Crack-up In The Antarctic Captured By ESA
In late February 2008, a large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated.
Read MoreTandem Team-Up By ESA
Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve understanding of our planet.
Read MoreNOAA Floats Plans for Conference
Coming to Miami, Florida, December 8-12 to meet with top NOAA officials to learn more about new equipment and software that will be needed to retrieve data from the next generation of NOAA satellites are weather and climate forecasters, emergency managers and other users of NOAA satellite information.
Read MoreDAICHI Sat Brings JAXA + UNESCO Together For MOU
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) concluded a Memorandum of Unity (MOU) for cooperating in monitoring World Heritage Sites using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) to watch and protect the common legacy of all mankind.
Read MoreRapidEye Rollout Reveals Real Estate Of Considerable Proportions
RapidEye has opened their new Image Gallery at their website. The Image Gallery will feature high resolution satellite images taken from around the world by RapidEye's constellation of five spacecraft.
Read MoreAstronauts Capture Egyptian Cities Of The Dead…
An interesting astronaut photo was acquired on October 31st by the Expedition 18 crew using a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with an 800 mm lens, provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
Read MoreBall Aerospace On the Ball, Passes Instrument Critical Design Review
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) being built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth in the Landsat satellite series, has successfully passed the Instrument Critical Design Review (ICDR).
Read MoreNot One, But Eight, Years For EO-1 — Congratz!
NASA's Earth Observer-1 (EO-1) has reached its eighth anniversary on orbit.
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