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Friday, September 26th, 2025

Typhoon Ragasa Seen from Space 

Captured on Sept. 24, 2025, by EUMETSAT’s MetOp-B satellite, this image shows Typhoon Ragasa swirling south of Hong Kong. Days earlier, Ragasa struck the northern Philippines with winds reaching 295 km/h, causing evacuations, power cuts and widespread...

Monday, September 15th, 2025

Earth from Space: Gibson Desert, Australia 

Part of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia is featured in this image captured by the Φsat-2 mission in June 2025.  Covering an area of more than 150,000 square kilometers, the desert consists of gravel terrains covered by desert...

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Algae Bloom of Chlorophyll In South Australia 

This image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission and its Ocean and Land Colour Instrument shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll is a key indicator of the presence of...

Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

Chinese Launch Startup Unveils Autonomous Rocket Recovery Ship 

Chinese launch startup iSpace launched the nation’s first rocket-recovery ship, marking a major step toward offshore reusable rocket operations.   Read more here.   Image Credit: iSpace 

Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces 

Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, 3D view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, on July...

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

NASA, ISRO Earth Satellite Mission Set to Launch July 30 from India 

NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation have set the launch readiness date for the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission for no earlier than July 30, 2025.   The Earth-observing satellite, which will be the first to...

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025

Ocean Explorers Map and Characterize Maritime Archaeology of Guadalcanal and Iron Bottom Sound 

The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus is underway on its third expedition of 2025 to conduct archaeological surveys of historically significant shipwrecks in the Iron Bottom Sound: the site of five famous naval battles, which were a turning point...

Monday, June 23rd, 2025

India To Launch $1.5 Billion Joint Earth Mission with NASA In July 

The $1.5 billion Earth-observing satellite, weighing nearly three tonnes, will monitor the planet's surface with unmatched precision, using advanced radar to scan land, ice, and water every 12 days.  Jointly developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and...

Friday, June 6th, 2025

Japan’s iQPS Lines Up Eight SAR Launches 

Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, iQPS, plans to launch eight additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites through the end of 2026.   Rocket Lab, the U.S. launch provider that sent QPS-SAR-10 into orbit on May 17, 2025, is on...

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

Radar Captures Lake Alakol, Asia’s ‘Multicoloured Lake’ 

Although radar images are naturally black and white, this false-color composite of Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan results from the combination of three separate radar images acquired a month apart in 2025. Each image has been given a...

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