Monday, June 20th, 2022
Cashmere: it’s an iconic part of luxury fashion and a silky soft way to keep warm in the winter. But there’s a lot to unravel about the way it’s made. Cashmere wool comes from goats living in...
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The Saga Prefecture and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a cooperation agreement on March 22, 2021, to solve regional issues with space technologies. They have been jointly promoting various initiatives under the "Space x Regional Revitalization”...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
Woolpert was contracted by the Pacific Community (SPC) to acquire, process and deliver topographic and bathymetric lidar data and aerial imagery for Vanuatu, a nation of multiple islands in the South Pacific. The project, funded by The...
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
A pair of tropical cyclones, one on each side of the equator, is putting on a show for satellites passing over the Indian Ocean. On May 8, 2022, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NOAA-20...
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
The SeaHawk satellite is a very small satellite designed to monitor ocean color and coastal ecosystems. It measures just 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters by 30 centimeters and flies in a polar orbit at 585 kilometers (363...
Monday, April 11th, 2022
Just more than three months into 2022, Sydney, Australia, has already received a year’s worth of rain. The recent deluge brought more flooding to the already rain-soaked southern and central coasts of New South Wales, prompting evacuations....
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
On March 1, 2022, StriX-β was deployed by Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The satellite reached target orbit, a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), with an altitude of 561...
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth—more than 3.6 billion years old. The iron-rich rocks formed before the presence of atmospheric oxygen … and life itself. Found upon these rocks are...
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Despite China’s large land area, only one impact crater—the relatively small Xiuyan crater in Liaoning province—had been discovered there prior to 2020. Then, last year, a team of geologists found another crater northwest of Yilan in Heilongjiang...
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
The cataclysmic explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano in January 2022 is reported to have been the biggest eruption recorded anywhere on the planet in 30 years. It sent a plume of ash soaring into the...
