Earth Observation
New Mission to Study the Earth’s Clouds
Image credit: NASA CloudSat, a new satellite mission planned to launch in 2004, will use an advanced radar to study…
QuikScat Captures Images of Melting Ice Shelf
Image credit: NASA An instrument on board NASA's Quick Scatterometer spacecraft has detected the earliest melting in Antarctica's Larsen Ice…
ICESat Launches
Image credit: NASA A satellite designed to track the changes in the Earth's major ice sheets was launched on Sunday…
Grace Maps the Earth’s Gravitational Field
The US-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission (aka Grace) has taken the last two weeks to produce the most…
View of Colorado Fire from Space
Image credit: NASA A new photo released from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the huge swath of destruction caused by the…
Chinese Dust Disaster Imaged From Space
Image credit: NASA NASA's Terra Earth Observing Satellite was on hand this week to record some of the worst dust…
Envisat Begins Study of Earth’s Environment
The European Space Agency's recently-launched Envisat began its ten year mission last week to gauge the health of planet Earth.…
Entire Earth Imaged
NASA has released a new set of photographs which form the most detailed true-colour image of the entire Earth ever…
Spacecraft Image Volcano Disaster From Orbit
Three NASA spacecraft chronicled the devastation that occurred when the Nyiragongo volcano in Congo erupted on January 17th. The eruption…