Category: Found on the Internet
What’s that Infrastructure? (Subsurface Utilities)
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You never know what's buried below your feet, but it could be infrastructure. Today's episode of WTI shows a number of subsurface utilities.
IceBridge Flies 300 Hours of Antarctic Science Flights
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Operation IceBridge is wrapping up its eighth consecutive field season of mapping the ice sheet and glaciers of Antarctica as well as the surrounding sea ice.
No Planet B
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A message from ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from on board the International Space Station to mark the start COP24, the UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Katowice, Poland.
GRACE-FO Launches Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on, or GRACE-FO, a collaboration between NASA and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's Central Coast on May 22, 2018.
NASA Rainfall Data and Global Fire Weather
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The Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED) integrates different weather factors influencing the likelihood of a vegetation fire starting and spreading.
Exploring Nuclear Power Plants via UAS
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Southwest Research Institute and the University of Pennsylvania are developing UAS technology to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged units at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and assess conditions.
The YEARS Project: Warming Oceans
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Scientists have discovered that the world's oceans are warming 40% faster than we thought. That has dire implications for sea creatures and people.
Tracking Three Decades of Dramatic Glacial Lake Growth
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In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change.
NASA Tech’s Supporting Role at the Oscars
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It's all about the gold. NASA uses gold on satellites and telescopes to see in infrared and block heat absorption. We needed a coating that was ulta-reflective and super durable—and thanks to a family-owned business i...
Earth from Space: Uruguay River Wetlands
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us along the lower reaches of the Uruguay River.
