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Fighting Wildfires in France
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Enjoy a sneak peek of ESA’s new documentary that looks at fire in all its fury--and how satellite technology is helping to mitigate this consequence of climate change. Join us on this journey as we meet the firefighte...
NASA ‘Sees’ Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, Tsunami in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
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This animation shows how waves of energy from the Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, pierced Earth’s ionosphere in the vicinity of Japan, disturbing the density of electrons. These disturbances were ...
Tracking Carbon from Wildfires to Ocean Blooms
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Between September 2019 and March 2020, wildfires killed billions of animals and decimated more than 200 thousand square kilometers of Australian forest, an area larger than Nebraska. Later, thousands of kilometers awa...
FIRE: An ESA documentary
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The summer fire season is well under way in Europe – countries all around the Mediterranean are experiencing record temperatures coupled with huge wildfires that have led to mass evacuations. In this enthralling new E...
Wildfires 101: How NASA Studies Fires in a Changing World
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From forest floor to space, NASA scientists and collaborators are advancing tools and methods to predict, remotely detect, and ultimately mitigate wildfires. That process starts with understanding fire behavior, track...
Liftoff for Crew-7 Aboard Crew Dragon Spacecraft Endurance
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On Aug. 26, 2023, Crew-7 aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance embarked on a journey to the International Space Station. Watch the full coverage of their launch from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
Meteosat Third Generation: Painting the Full Picture
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In a significant leap forward for meteorology, the preliminary data obtained by Meteosat Third Generation’s two instruments, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), were successfully combined...
Arctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Minimum, Antarctic Sets New Record
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Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 19, 2023, making it the sixth-lowest year in the satellite record, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). M...
Ozone Hole as Monitored by the German Aerospace Center
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This animation uses Sentinel-5P total ozone measurements and shows the evolution of the ozone hole over the South Pole from Sept. 1-29, 2023. The Tropomi total ozone measurements are processed within the Sentinel-5...
Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise
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New research, based largely on information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA’s CryoSat satellite missions, has revealed alarming findings about the state of Antarctica's ice shelves: 40% of these floating shelves...
