LDCM (Landsat) On track for launch early Monday
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is a GO for a launch in the early morning hours Monday Feb, 11 2013. NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V…
Category Archives: Earth Observation
Super-Tiger Balloon Breaks Records While Collecting Data
(Source NASA) – A large NASA science balloon has broken two flight duration records while flying over Antarctica carrying an instrument that detected 50 million cosmic rays. The Super Trans-Iron…
NOAA report states climate change will continue to threaten U.S. coasts
Climate change impacts to U.S. coasts threaten public health, safety and economy (Source NOAA) – According to a new technical report, the effects of climate change will continue to threaten…
Dramatic Video Shows Earth Heating from 1880 to 2012
Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies (Source NASA) – This striking video shows how the Earth temperatures have changed since 1880. The color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures…
Water Water Everywhere…in our solar system.
Water is not a luxury of Earth, in fact, it is the most abundant compound in the universe because it is composed of the first and third most abundant elements,…
Prehistoric Earth as seen from Space.
A look from space to the evolution of a habitable planet. The Visible Paleo-Earth (VPE) project has constructed a view of what earth looked like in pre-historic times. The goal of…
NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite
(Source NASA) — 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 Survey (USGS)…
Critical Gaps Looming in Important Earth Observation Data
GAO Predicts a gap in data of 17-53 months Above our heads in low Earth Polar Orbit a series of aging Earth Observation satellites is beginning to slowly break down…
