Environment
Europe’s Climate Satellite Fails to Leave Pad
[/caption] Europe's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) seems to be stuck on the pad. The climate change satellite…
Earth Hour 2009 – Where Will You Be When The Lights Go Out?
With less than six weeks to go, more than 500 cities around the world have officially agreed to go dark…
NASA Study Predicted Outbreak of Deadly Virus
Scientists have long suspected that climatic variables like sea surface temperature and precipitation could foreshadow outbreaks of disease. Now, they…
Climate Change Satellite gets Green Light for Launch
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been cleared for takeoff, following nearly a year…
Satellite Images of 2009 Australian Bushfires
[/caption] UPDATE: Satellite Images from February 9 have now been added below. As of this writing, 94 people (update 2/9/09)…
NASA Uses 90 Rubber Ducks to Study Global Warming
[/caption]NASA scientists have dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks into holes in Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier in an attempt to understand why…
The Chinese “Weather Manipulation Missile” Olympics
[/caption] One thing is for certain, the Chinese cannot be accused of being subtle when it comes to insuring good…
When Cloud Seeding Goes Wrong: Cement Chunk Falls From the Sky
The Russian Air Force, during a mission to clear the skies of potentially rain-filled clouds, dropped a mixture of silver…
Harvesting Solar Power from Space
In a new report, the viability of sending solar panels into space to collect a vast quantity of uninterrupted energy…
The A-Train: Using Five Satellites as One to Analyze Polluted Clouds
This is one of the finest examples of satellite collaboration. Five Earth-observing orbiters, four from NASA and one from France,…