Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Located in the South Pacific Ocean, about 3,900 kilometers east of New Zealand, Point Nemo is also known as the “Pole of Inaccessibility” because it’s the farthest point from any land on Earth. With no inhabited islands...
Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface. The NISAR mission is a first-of-a-kind dual-band radar satellite that will measure land deformation from earthquakes, landslides and...
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from Nov. 13, 2024, shows the Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano eruption on the island of Flores in southern Indonesia. Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki started spewing ash and smoke on Nov. 4, 2024. It has, so...
Friday, November 8th, 2024
Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, has seen its first snowfall after one of the longest periods without snow since records began 130 years ago. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of Mount Fuji's iconic snowcap on...
Monday, October 28th, 2024
On Oct. 28, 2024, an ocean exploration expedition named Lebuu’s Voyage set sail aboard Ocean Exploration Trust’s (OET) Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus to explore deep-sea habitats within Euotelel a Klingil a Debel Belau, the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS). Eleven...
Friday, October 11th, 2024
Multiple recent incidents in which naval and commercial vessels ran aground have highlighted the dangers of maritime operations in shallow or poorly charted coastal waters. For more than 10 years, TCarta has been supplying marine charting...
Monday, September 30th, 2024
This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission reveals the impact of severe flooding following heavy rain that hit Australia’s Northern Territory in March 2024. According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, March 2024 was the second wettest March on...
Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
The GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) instrument on the EOS-08 satellite commenced operations on Aug. 18, 2024. The raw data is being processed at the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC-ISRO) in Shadnagar, Hyderabad, using algorithms and data processing software developed...
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
In the arid outback of Western Australia, miners have excavated rust-colored soil to reach the precious minerals below. The open pits and ponds of Telfer mine can be seen in this image, captured by the OLI-2 (Operational...
Tuesday, August 20th, 2024
The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus set sail in August on its fifth expedition of 2024: E Mamana Ou Gataifale I (NA164). This expedition includes multi-vehicle exploration of midwater ecosystems across American Samoan waters. The midwater...
