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ExoMars – A Promising Future
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2016 has been an eventful and promising year for ESA’s ExoMars mission. After successfully placing the Trace Gas Orbiter into Mars’ orbit on Oct. 19, the orbiter has sent back its first images, tested its instruments and performed in orbit calibration measurements and health checks.
Prescribed Forest Fire Frequency Should Be Based on Land Management Goals
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Researchers at the University of Missouri have studied forests subjected to different frequencies of fires to determine what effects fire can have on oak forests over long periods of time.
Air Quality: What’s Space Got to Do with It?
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Governments and decision-makers rely heavily on satellite data and computer models to show how pollution accumulates and how it is carried in the air so that they can develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
GEOINT Keynote: Stephen P. Welby, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
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The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) recorded the keynote speech of Stephen P. Welby, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, at the 2016 GEOINT Symposium on May 16, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger? We Asked a NASA Scientist
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Are hurricanes getting stronger? Although we’ll never see a Category 6 hurricane, data does show that more hurricanes are becoming more severe. Hurricane and climate expert Mara Cordero-Fuentes of NASA's Goddard Space...
MetOp: The Power of Three
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With MetOp-C, the mission continues as a three-satellite constellation, increasing the wealth of data for weather forecasting.
Earth from Space: Seville
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Seville in southern Spain, where ESA's next Ministerial Council will soon take place, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
Landsat’s View of Crops from Space, in Music
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In this video, you can hear Landsat's view of crops from space in the form of a song, called a data sonification.
After Quake, Engineer in Khatmandu Describes What Fell Down, or Didn’t, and Why
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Kit Miyamoto, a structural engineer fresh from five years rebuilding Haiti, spoke with Andy Revkin of The New York Times Dot Earth blog after a day inspecting Kathmandu damage zones.
Earth from Space: Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
