Posts Tagged ‘Satellites’
Strongest solar radiation storm since 2005
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation's official source of warnings and alerts about space weather and its impacts on Earth -- has issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm associated with a bright flare on the sun Sunday evening (Jan. 22, ...
3 satellites see eruption of Puyehue-Cordón volcano from space
NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters NASA/NOAA GOES Project, Dennis Chesters 11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Park in the And...
Mission to Measure Aerosols: NASA To Launch Glory Satellite Wednesday
The A-Train series of satellites collecting aerosol information; Image via NASA Last month, we reported on the Glory Satellite from NASA. Intended to measure airborn grit from volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks and tailpipes, the satellite, named G...
Key weather relay satellite survives encounter with ZombieSat
On April 3, 2010, the sun's surface erupted in a magnetic disturbance known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). A chuck of the sun's atmosphere ripped away and hurtled through space towards the Earth, arriving two days later. As Coronal Mass Ejections go...
History Of The GPS
Second Tropical Cyclone Ever in South Atlantic
Crown Jewel Of Solar Satellites To Study Space Weather
From William Harwood of CNET...
The weatherman is no magician
Kenya's Daliy Nation reports that " The KENYA Meteorological Department predicted a return of the infamous El Niño rains in late 2009. The prophecy ...
Satellites Can Spot Tsunamis
News Daily is reporting that "Satellites can spot the leading edge ...
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