The successful US/German satellite gravity mission GRACE comes to an end after 15 years On March 17, 2002, the twin satellites of the NASA/German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)…
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Using the Orbiting Carbon Observatory for something useful: monitoring potential volcanic eruptions
From MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Is it gonna blow? Measuring volcanic emissions from space Late last month, a stratovolcano in Bali named Mount Agung began to smoke. Little earthquakes trembled beneath the…
Aug. 2, 2017 Space Station Flyover of Super Typhoon Noru
Just a fantastic viewpoint~ctm From NASA NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed Super Typhoon Noru in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on August 1, 2017, as the International Space Station passed overhead.…
Alien ice on Earth
From Eurekalert Only two more steps to ICE NINE!~ctm Stanford scientists discover how dense, extraterrestrial ice can form in just billionths of a second Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy &…
NASA to Test Fission Power for Future Mars Colony
By Irene Klotz, Space.com Contributor, Original Story on Space.com Here An artist’s impression of a nuclear power system, consisting of four separate fission reactors, for Mars habitats. Credit: NASA/Kilopower As…
Stunning Earth UHD imagery from new GOES 16 satellite
Finally, a weather satellite showing Earth from space “goes” high definition. With five-times greater coverage, four-times the spatial resolution, and three-times the spectral channels than earlier generations of GOES-16’s Advanced…
State of the art weather satellite launched over the weekend promises huge gains in many areas
NOAA’s GOES-R satellite launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend at 6;42pm on November 19, 2016. Click here to read more about the launch of GOES-R. But what’s…
Stephen Hawking backs $100 Million Russian Effort to Build a Relativistic Space Probe
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The quest to send a physical probe to the nearest stars is heating up – renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking has teamed up with Russian billionaire…
OCO-2 – Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 – the mission has released an animation
Guest essay by Ric Werme It’s been a long wait, but OCO-2 speaks! Let’s start with a timeline:
Claim: Universe to end with a 'big rip' where 'atoms are ripped apart'
New model of cosmic stickiness favors ‘Big Rip’ demise of universe From Vanderbilt University: The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of…
Gigantic asteroid near miss coming this Thursday
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Express reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres…
NASA's Hubble observations suggest underground ocean on Jupiter's largest moon
From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought…
Citizen science: restoring the first 'Earthrise' image ever taken – help needed for The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
Note: WUWT readers may remember Dennis Wingo, who was one of the lead scientists on recovering use of the ISEE spacecraft. Before that, he started on a project to recover…
Another 'settled science' topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned
We’ve all heard of the claim of “settled science” when it comes to global warming/climate change, and we’ve all heard of the “Big Bang Theory”, and I’m not just talking…
1960's satellite imagery of polar ice discovers “enormous holes” in the sea ice
NSIDC has announced the discovery and recovery of space footage of Earth’s polar icecaps, dating back to 1964. The recovered photographs have yielded some startling surprises, according to David Gallaher,…
OCO: I can see your house emitting CO2 from here
From NASA JPL and the department of future CO2 emissions ticketing: OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will…
'Goldilocks zone' exoplanets would not be habitable without an ocean
UEA: Oceans moderate the climate Story submitted by Eric Worrall h/t The Register – University of East Anglia researchers have challenged the view that any planet in the Goldilocks zone…
Breaking news on the ISEE-3 mission: it may not be lost – it's those "O" rings again
A few days ago, my heart sank when I heard this news: Space Probe Might Lack Nitrogen to Push It Home It seemed a deal-killer if the nitrogen tanks were…
ISEE-3 Update: Trajectory Correction Maneuver
Dennis Wingo writes: As many of you know, last week we fired the thrusters on ISEE-3 to do a spin-up burn. Before the burn (actually 11 pulses on the spacecraft’s…
Carbon counting satellite finally makes it into orbit
The previous mission failed to make orbit, crashed into ocean. A Delta II rocket blazed off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Wednesday morning to…
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