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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Hacking a Climate Satellite to See Beneath the Ocean's Surface

by E. Betz 27 May 20155 July 2022

When NASA launched its CALIPSO spacecraft, the space agency did not intend to estimate phytoplankton populations.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Insights into Currents in Earth's Magnetic Field

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 18 May 201516 November 2021

Multisatellite missions give scientists a more complete view of the intense currents that bounce back and forth along our planet's magnetic field lines.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Do All These Weather Satellites Really Improve Forecasts?

by E. Betz 15 April 201529 March 2022

A team of researchers put an array of space- and ground-based weather instruments to the test and found that the common weather balloon is irreplaceable for forecasting rainfall.

Posted inScience Updates

Changing of the Guard: Satellite Will Warn Earth of Solar Storms

by D. J. Knipp and D. A. Biesecker 24 March 201531 January 2022

This summer, Earth gets a new guardian—the Deep Space Climate Observatory—to help warn astronauts and operators of critical planetary infrastructure about the Sun's raging magnetic storms.

Posted inScience Updates

Earthquake Monitoring Gets Boost from New Satellite

by J. R. Elliott, A. J. Elliott, A. Hooper, Y. Larsen, P. Marinkovic and T. J. Wright 12 February 20151 November 2021

Europe's Sentinel-1A spacecraft and its extraordinary images of slip from the South Napa earthquake herald a new era of space-based surveillance of faults.

Posted inScience Updates

Rapid Coordination Extends Space-Based Sun-Climate Record

by T. Woods, R. Cahalan, W. Denig, G. Kopp, P. Pilewskie, T. Sparn and Faith Ishii 25 November 201418 January 2023

Faced with the prospect of a large data gap in solar irradiance records, scientists take steps to ensure that this key climate variable stays monitored.

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Role of Lunar Atmospheric Tides in Thermosphere Density

by S. Palus and Faith Ishii 25 November 201423 January 2023

Researchers explored how lunar gravity affects the density of the thermosphere. The study could help improve the accuracy of satellite orbit predictions.

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Identifying Biases in Satellite Temperature and Humidity Records

by C. Schultz 7 October 201420 March 2023

Researchers estimated the sampling biases that affect temperature and humidity climatologies derived from detectors on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

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Proposed Satellite Would Improve Study of Cloud Physics

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 2 September 20143 February 2022

Researchers propose a new satellite that would help scientists study how cloud physics is affected by aerosols.

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Sentinel Satellites Initiate New Era in Earth Observation

by Randy Showstack 1 July 20149 December 2022

The European Space Agency’s Josef Aschbacher talks with Eos about the new Sentinel fleet of Earth observing satellites.

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