Earth exploration satellites

The GRATTIS satellite orbits the Earth with two gravity measuring instruments. (credit Simon Barke/UF)

A satellite will demonstrate an experiment of gravitational reference technologies that will give a better picture of plate movements

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GRATTIS will demonstrate the performance of advanced sensors that measure nanometer-scale gravitational changes from space to track movements on Earth's surface and interior
Two maps of New York show how vegetation is suited to cooler areas by temperature. Comparing maps of New York's vegetation and temperature shows the cooling effect of parks and neighborhoods with more trees. NASA/USGS Landsat

Landsat 50 years old: how satellites revolutionized the way we see - and protect - the natural world

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On July 23, 1972, the Landsat satellite was launched, which changed our attitude to the environment. Since then the satellites have been perfected and now NASA is developing the Landsat 10 satellite, which will be able to reveal more details about the destruction of the Earth
Ramon Space's space storage system. Illustration: Ofer Shapir

Ramon Space announces a storage system resistant to space conditions - contains a "virtual radiation shield"

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In an interview with the Hidan website, the company's CEO Avi Shabtai explains that the amount of data collected by satellites is enormous and requires smart storage to filter the data that has come down to earth and send only the data
JPSS mission. Image: NASA

In 2022, NASA will launch four new space missions to explore the Earth

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The tasks are TROPICS, EMIT, JPSS and SWOT. Each of them offers something unique and adds a new way to understand and protect our home
CropX processes satellite images for precision agriculture applications. PR photo

CropX will provide NASA with global soil data to improve agricultural crops around the world

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Image based on processing of radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

The European Space Agency photographed the traffic jam in the Gulf of Suez due to the stranded ship

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The giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt is seen in new images taken by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission along with the maritime traffic jam it caused.
Imaging: Asher Space Research Institute.

Scientists from Israel and France will launch three tiny satellites to study climate change

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Photograph of the Jerusalem area taken by the Venus satellite. In the picture you can see Jerusalem and its surroundings in an unprecedented quality, distinguishing different ground details. Venus contains a camera with a resolution of 5 meters that takes pictures in 12 layers of information and covers about 740 square kilometers in 110 places around the world. Currently, there is no satellite in space that contains a combination of this type of qualities. Source: Courtesy of the Ministry of Science.

The Israeli research satellite Venus transmitted the first images from space - of Jerusalem

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The satellite Venus. Imaging - Israel Space Agency.

An interview with the chief scientist of the "Venus" satellite project that will be launched the day after tomorrow

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The satellite Venus. Imaging - Israel Space Agency

The Israeli satellites Venus and Offset 3000 will be launched next week from French Guinea

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The Venus satellite in the clean room at the aerospace industry, on the eve of its transfer to the French Space Agency for launch, 26/5/2017. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The head of the French Space Agency at the ceremony of handing over the Venus satellite for launch: "Space missions are of great importance in the fight against global warming"

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The environmental research satellite "Venus" leaves Israel on the way to launch. Minister Aconis: "Looking forward to more opportunities for cooperation with France"

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Drought in Africa in 2006: areas with abundant vegetation are shown in green, areas with less healthy and thriving vegetation are brown. Photo: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of Jennifer Small, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center

Why does NASA follow cows?

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The night glow of the atmosphere. Stephen D. Miller

The Night Watch / Stephen D. Miller

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The reversal of the poles. Credit: Gary A. Glatzmeier University of California, Santa Cruz and Paul H. Roberts University of California, Los Angeles

Earth's Battle Magnetic Reversal / I Snead

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The frozen Niagara Falls, February 2014. Photo: from the Facebook page of Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel

The weather in the USA is going crazy: the east is freezing and the west is suffering from a drought

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Researcher Claude Dugas stands on the cracked ice of an Arctic lake Photo: Claude Dugas / University of Waterloo

Another proof of warming: the ice season in the Arctic region was shortened by 24 days compared to 1950

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Technicians at Astrotech's payload preparation center are preparing the RBSP spacecraft for launch. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett

RBSP satellites were launched to measure the radiation belts

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The NOAA-9 satellite. Figure: NOAA

The excuses are over - calibration errors were found in the model that showed less global warming than in reality

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The blue marble - this time the eastern hemisphere. Taken in January 2012 from the Sumi-NPP spacecraft. Photo: NASA and NOAA

The Blue Marble - 2012 version

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The hole in the ozone over the Northern Hemisphere, 2011. Photo: NASA

This year there was a hole in the ozone over the North Pole as well

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NASA's TREEA satellite

Researchers have developed a new method to prevent damage to agriculture using satellites

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Earth Day NASA version: The five most interesting pictures of the Earth in the last year

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The fire in Carmel as photographed by NASA's Terra spacecraft, 3/12/2010

NASA's Terra spacecraft photographed the fire in Carmel

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The new program

The German company OHB develops new platforms for remote sensing applications

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THEMIS satellites that study the Earth's magnetic field. Image: NASA

Not only the earth shakes - space too

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Dr. Ilan Koren and Dr. Orit Altertz

The connection between dust and lightning

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20 Future NASA Missions

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Clouds over Brazil. Photo: Ilan Koren, Weizmann Institute

The lightning storms over the jungles in the Amazon are very sensitive to the smoke rising from the forest fires initiated in the area

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- In June 1982, the four engines of a Boeing 747 of British Airways flew like this when it flew through a cloud of volcanic ash. There were 248 passengers on board. Photo: British Airways/Captain Eric Moody/European Space Agency

The aviation hysteria as a result of the eruption of the volcano in Iceland is due to the impact of volcanic ash on 90 planes in the past

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This is how the Creosat 2 satellite will measure the thickness of the ice layer. Figure: European Space Agency

on thin ice

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NASA and the Japanese government release a topographical map of the Earth to the public

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"Red glow" in the ocean

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Protecting the environment from space

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A conference on remote sensing from hyperspectral satellites will be held next week at Tel Aviv University

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A new way to discover oil deposits: a gravity map based on satellite data

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The launch of the OCO satellite, which was supposed to monitor the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, failed

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This week NASA will launch the OCO satellite that will measure the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere for the first time from space

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Europe will soon launch satellites to monitor climate change

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A huge hole in the Earth's magnetic field allowed a solar storm to penetrate

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The oxygen leaks from the atmosphere into space

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NASA's Aqua satellite photographed Hurricane Gustav

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Goss - a mission to study the gravity of a ball in Israel

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Precision agriculture, from space

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The first satellite in orbit to detect asteroids

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The Jason 2 satellite will monitor sea level

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Preparations continue for the launch of a satellite that will measure the changes in sea level tomorrow

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Satellite images of the results of the earthquake in China

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A new view of the earth as never seen before

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Germany is about to launch the EnMAP hyperspectral satellite that will allow for the first time to estimate the amount of minerals and not just their existence

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