20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... additional signs that could further the teams investigations. "We have already identified some areas inundated by the tsunamis where the ponded water appears to have emplaced lacustrine sediments, including evaporites," said Alexis Rodriguez of the...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... caused widespread damage as it thundered over land. Without plate tectonics to cause huge landslips, it is expected that any tsunamis on Mars would also be generated by an impacting body striking its surface. So the hunt has been on to find signs...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission is due to launch on February 12, 2016, nearly 5 years after the 9.0- magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that devastated the country. ASTRO-H (formerly known as "NeXT") is the sixth satellite in a series of highly ...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... civil protection provides us with the ability to constantly improve our responses to frequently occurring natural hazards such as tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, monsoons, cyclones and typhoons. But given the pre-event warning time that detection...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
...to the main Achilles heel of satellite technology. Japan’s tsunami made the media’s job tougher One would think that ...satellite is your only option. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami devastated one of the most technologically advanced nations on the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...in diameter that fall into an ocean can cause a tsunami that would destroy coastal settlements, while those that fall ...a consequence of a celestial body collision and the consequent tsunami. One of the most significant events happened 65 million years...
