The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the archipelago of Lofoten in northern Norway.

Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) formally announced the University of Southern California (USC) as its newest University Partnership Program member at a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing event Feb. 28 at USC. Lt. Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, commander of USSF's Space Systems Command, joined USC President Carol Folt at USC's University Park Campus for the signing. Other Space Systems Comman

Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite impacted after the appearance of humans and opens up a new understanding of Earth's evolution in the post-dinosaur era. Ever since 2015, when researchers at the University of Copenhagen's GLO

Washington (AFP) March 11, 2022
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some tubes were kept sealed so that they could be studied years later, with the help of the latest technical breakthroughs. NASA knew "science and technology would evolve and allow scientists to study the

The time has come to register to attend the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium – one of the largest Earth observation conferences in the world. Taking place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany, and jointly organised with the German Aerospace Center, this prestigious event allows all attendees to hear first-hand about the latest scientific findings on our planet. Attendees will also hear how observing Earth from space supports environmental research and action to combat the climate crisis, learn about novel Earth observing technologies and, importantly, learn about the new opportunities emerging in the rapidly changing sector

Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. in Namibia show for the first time the course of an acceleration process in a stellar process called a nova, which comprises powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf. A nova creates a shock wave that tears through

Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail. Bringing together three decades of study, an international group of scientists have observed a pair of stars orbiting each other, to reveal that these stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust. Research published in The Astrophysical Journal, s

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2022
After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identifies and targets an interesting rock near the rover by itself. ENV than planned a bonanza of atmospheric monitoring activities, as we had power to spare. This included 7 dust devil movies with 4

Redlands CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute to climate change. To support these efforts, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, is releasing a globally consistent 2017-2021 global land-use and land-cover map of

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce the successful completion of the LizzieSat (LS) Preliminary Design Review (PDR). A PDR ensures the design and basic system architecture are complete and that there is technical confidence the capability need can be s