Monday, December 4th, 2023
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured an amazing view of the tropical island of Tutuila, the largest in the American Samoa archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States and is part...
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, 2023, emerging from a 21-day test aimed at evaluating its ability to function in...
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
In September and October 2023, Afghanistan and Morocco were hit by strong earthquakes. In Morocco, where such phenomena are quite uncommon, and in Afghanistan, they wiped out entire villages, killing thousands of people. Using satellite data, Dr....
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
The bilateral collaboration for “InRange” builds upon the Memorandum of Cooperation signed between both space agencies in 2021. Under this framework, InRange is jointly funded through UKSA’s International Bilateral Fund for the development of a new in-orbit...
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
After rapidly growing in volume just a few years earlier, northwest Iran’s Lake Urmia nearly dried out in autumn 2023. The largest lake in the Middle East and one of the largest hypersaline lakes on Earth at its greatest...
Monday, September 25th, 2023
An international team led by Purdue University scientists created the first spatial database of planted forests in East Asia by combining data collected onsite and via satellite. Produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence, the database contains...
Monday, September 11th, 2023
In the Himalayas, not far from the base of Mount Everest, lies the Imja-Lhotse Shar Glacier, where David Rounce conducted his doctoral research. From 2013 to 2017, Rounce and his team visited Nepal to measure the glacier...
Monday, August 28th, 2023
Protecting against flooding on islands requires reliable measurements of how much the ground is sinking and where, noted Jeanne Sauber, a geophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “You need to know in detail...
Friday, August 11th, 2023
After charting a zigzagging path that delivered damaging winds and rain to Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, Tropical Cyclone Khanun brushed Kyushu and began heading toward the Korean Peninsula. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite...
Monday, July 31st, 2023
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of the coastal Mediterranean city of Antalya, Türkiye, in Asia. Located on the southern coast of Türkiye, Antalya is the largest city in this view. The...
