A new Brazilian satellite would allow near–real-time monitoring of Amazonian deforestation. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd By Sofia MoutinhoFeb. 26, 2021 , 1:45 PM The fate of Brazil’s satellite program—and the country’s capacity to monitor disappearing Amazon forest—will be decided in 17 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. That’s the time it […]
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Once three-and-a-half times larger than London, the monumental A68 iceberg has now disintegrated into an ‘alphabet soup’ of particular person fragments drifting in the ocean north of Antarctica, a NASA satellite tv for pc picture revealed. The picture, taken by the so-called Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard NASA’s ‘Terra’ Earth-observing satellite tv for […]
The ill-fated Atlantic iceberg A68 that broke off from Antarctica in 2017 has suffered another major spilt. Between Tuesday and Thursday this week, a new smaller iceberg, called A68g, measuring 33 miles in length and 11.5 miles in width, calved from the largest remaining portion of the berg, A68a, in the South […]
Linda Zall played a starring role in American science that led to decades of major advances. But she never described her breakthroughs on television, or had books written about her, or received high scientific honors. One database of scientific publications lists her contributions as consisting of just three papers, with […]
Not being able to see the forest for the trees isn’t just a colloquialism for Mihai Nita — it’s a professional disadvantage. “When I go into the forest, I can only see 100 meters around me,” said Dr. Nita, a forest engineer at Transylvania University of Brasov, in Romania. Dr. […]
Thousands of rivers across the US have significantly changed color over the last 36 years, a new study reveals. A team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed 235,000 satellite images taken from 1984 through 2018 and found one-third of rivers have transitioned from blue to green […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Early next year, NASA plans to select a maximum of three Astrophysics Pioneers missions, investigations with a maximum price tag of $20 million, Michel Garcia, NASA Astrophysics Division smallsats lead program scientist, said at the virtual American Geophysical Union fall meeting. NASA created the Astrophysics Pioneers initiative […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are continuing to explore the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Earth’s environment and to consider any implications for public policy. That is one of the takeaways of the ongoing American Geophysical Union virtual fall meeting, which features dozens of talks and posters from researchers drawing on satellite […]