News of the week
![]() New Earth Venture mission to provide snapshot of 'average' atmosphere - Missing data point05 May 2015Scientists know more about the chemical makeup of the lower atmosphere following forest fires, sand storms, volcanic eruptions and other natural events than they do about its composition on less calamitous days - a missing, but important data point in climate-change research that a new NASA Earth Venture mission called the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom), aims to furnish.
Image of the week
Tropical Storm NoulThis composite image of Tropical Storm Noul was generated at 12:00 (UTC) on 5 May 2015, days before the storm strengthened and passed over the Philippines as a Super Typhoon.
Earth Observation Missions
PROBA-V maps world air traffic from space07 May 2015As ESA's PROBA-V works quietly on its main task of monitoring vegetation growth across Earth, the minisatellite is also picking up something from a little higher: signals from thousands of aircraft.
Research and Applications
![]() Himalayan 'drop after Nepal quake'08 May 2015The height of a swathe of the Himalayas has dropped by around one metre as a result of the devastating Nepal earthquake, scientists say.
Events
![]() 2nd COSPAR Symposium09 - 13 November 2015Contact: COSPAR Secretariat c/o CNES - cospar@cosparhq.cnes.fr Organisation: Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Location: Foz do IguaƧu, Brazil Symposium Overview: COSPAR has initiated a new series of scientific meetings, the Symposia, aimed at promoting space research at a regional level and to be organised in countries with medium or small size space infrastructures. The theme of the 2nd Symposium will be "Water and Life in the Universe". It will feature plenary lectures as well as parallel sessions and poster sessions. Topics include:
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Visit the eoPortal database to find out about spaceborne EO missions and sensors to discover more about past, operational and future missions. This is complemented with detailed articles of airborne sensors. This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017. |
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