Operadores de rádio amadores que estudam a física espacial e a atmosfera superior investigaram a resposta da ionosfera ao eclipse solar anular de 2023 usando transmissões de ondas curtas.
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Fiber-Optic Networks Could Reveal the Moon’s Inner Structure
Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.
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American Samoa’s Sinking Land Speeds Up Sea Level Rise
A new interactive tool is helping residents understand how their lands and homes are at risk.
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Out With the Old, in With the Cold
A 12-meter telescope at the Arecibo Observatory gets outfitted with a wideband cryogenic system to expand its capabilities.
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Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
Ancient humans possessed sophisticated knowledge of the properties of the stones they used to make tools.
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Snapping Science in the Field
Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app, offers a range of features that make it an unexpectedly useful tool for geoscientists on the go.
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Ionospheric Fireworks Illuminate Auroral Science
A sounding rocket experiment set off a spectacular nighttime light show over Scandinavia as it produced new insights into ionospheric behavior near an aurora.
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Ecosystem Observations from Every Angle
Proximal remote sensing provides a bridge between ecosystem flux data at Earth’s surface and optical data from satellite sensors, improving our grasp of feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and climate.
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Affordable Robots Measure Soil Respiration
Measuring soil carbon flux, also known as soil respiration, can be expensive or time-consuming. A set of affordable robots that gather these data autonomously could especially benefit the Global South.