March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
...the era of the Sentinel-2 twin constellation spacecraft designed to acquire a wealth of geodata to help safeguard the ‘health’ of Earth. Further major advances were limited by the paucity of data, the relative lack of processing power & data handling...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... from the Sun, and with an abundance of liquid water on its surface, Earth is a planet like no other that we know of so far. It stands... observations in search of extrasolar life than the most Earth-like planets,” the authors state. It should be ...
July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
..., therefore, play an essential role in the context of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda. The Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and landscapes are being increasingly impacted by human activities. Monitoring and modeling these changes...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
... is lacking in our own Solar System. So, why isn’t Earth accompanied by a much larger neighbour? Researchers at the University of... there is sufficient time to form the super–Earths. Migration of super–Earths through a dead zone is very slow and thus...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... article is therefore about how such an innovative mega-structure could be designed to save the human species and Earth as we know it today. That is not to say this is something easy or inexpensive to build. It could be on a par, for example, with...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...8 were the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit, see Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. ... exploration we do of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the most...
