Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Dark areas represent permanent water bodies or fields frequently or always covered by water, for example rice fields. Different shades of blue represent the flood occurrences frequency estimated from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 data archive (light blue: less...
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
A very close conjunction between Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter (CH2O) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of NASA was expected to occur on Oct. 20, 2021, near the Lunar North pole. During a span of one week prior, analyses by...
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
Like a sea captain tracking a white whale, Steve Miller has been chasing “milky seas” for decades. He has been looking for examples of a rare form of marine bioluminescence, and the arrival of new night-light sensing...
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
On Oct. 11, 2021, the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched the Indian Space Association (ISpA), the premier industry association of space and satellite companies. Also present on the occasion were Shri Ashwin Vaishnav, Union Minister...
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
Australia is no stranger to bushfires, but the 2019-2020 season proved to be unprecedented. In southeast Australia, the fires were both intense and extensive. As much as 74,000 square kilometers of mostly eucalyptus forest, roughly 2.5 times...
Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
For decades, NASA has used the vantage point of space, combined with airborne and ground-based field campaigns, to decipher the impact of air pollution and help other agencies protect people when unhealthy air threatens the places...
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
Food security—the consistent availability and affordability of food—is a basic human need, yet it remains elusive for billions of people around the world. The United Nations’ 2021 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report,...
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
Months before the world turned its eye toward Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics, an astronaut on the International Space Station captured this image of the Japanese megacity. The photograph offers a distinctive, high-resolution view of the...
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
As soon as the snow began melting in May 2021, fires broke out in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in eastern Russia. During the spring and summer, blazes have proliferated and intensified. By August, fires had consumed...
Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
As the 2020 Olympic Games opened in late July 2021, Tokyo was in the midst of a humid heat wave that pushed temperatures above 34°C (93°F) several days in a row. For meteorologists and climatologists, the arrival...
