03 March 2016
Sentinel-3A Delivers First Images
..., which has 21 distinct bands, a resolution of 300 m and a swath width of 1270 km. It will allow for the monitoring of ocean ecosystems, as well as support vegetation, crop conditions and inland water monitoring. OLCI will also estimate atmospheric...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... This new finding is therefore an independent line of evidence supporting the theory of hydrothermal activity taking place in the ocean of Enceladus. This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom of the...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
...dunes as a barrier between Florida’s launch pads and the encroaching ocean. AS a result, NASA is currently using 350,000 cubic ... the Marine Resources Council and Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, sand dunes ...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
..., payload, or re-entry requirement. International cooperation The consortium has also scouted locations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and even further south in the Atlantic Portugal Space has been keen to emphasise cooperation between governments...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... Copernicus anthropogenic carbon dioxide-monitoring mission, CO2M. In addition, the agency will generate global atmospheric and ocean products from the future Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) and CRISTAL polar-monitoring missions. The...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
...life forms to evolve and to later seed the new oceans of the cooled-down Earth, and may explain why...in frozen sea water, at depths of 6.7 km in the Earth’s crust, at ocean depths greater than 10 km where the pressure is over 110 MPa and in extreme ...
