Saturday, January 12th, 2013
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image showing the large bush fires burning in eastern New South Wales, Australia, on 9 January 2013. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected...
Friday, January 11th, 2013
NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological...
Friday, December 14th, 2012
Thanks to a new sensor that is part of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Suomi NPP satellite, we now have a high-resolution image of the entire earth at night. The cloud-free image was...
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A rocket blasting into space doesn’t make news today, such routine are satellite launches and so mature is technology. But, in May, a rocket launch by Californian company SpaceX made news. In fact, it made history as...
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) cancelled its plan to conduct atmospheric studies this year following the Thai Cabinet's decision to refer the matter for deliberation in a joint sitting of Parliament. "NASA cancelled...
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The Natural Research Council has just released a detailed report that cautions about a decline in U.S. earth observation capacity. Since much of this capacity and data are provided to researchers and governments worldwide, this decline has...
Monday, March 19th, 2012
NASA scientists are planning a complex and ambitious airborne science campaign: to probe a vast expanse of the Southeast Asian atmosphere from top to bottom at the critical time of year when strong weather systems and prolific...
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
You’ve seen Earth, but you’ve never seen it like this. Suomi NPP, NASA’s newest Earth-watching satellite, has taken a high resolution image of Earth, one of the most beautiful such images ever created. It’s available in 8000×8000...
Monday, November 14th, 2011
NASA space technology is helping CSIRO scientists produce the most detailed maps yet of Australia's water resources. A new computer model using the NASA-developed technology will provide the most sophisticated mapping of the continent ever, said Dr Bill...
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was...
