Since 1958, NASA has launched dozens of satellites to monitor Earth. While Explorer 1 measured cosmic rays, satellites today can observe everything from salinity in the oceans to nitrous oxide, air temperature, and more. Over two dozen active NASA satellite missions currently monitor Earth from or...
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of dust from North Africa swirling over the Mediterranean Sea on May 29, 2013. Satellite Images of Earth NASA In one patch of desert, where the Rio Grande makes a border between the United ...
The best tool for the improvement of all these functions, undoubtedly, is the artificial Earth satellite. Circling the globe at a high altitude, it can screen wide areas of land within a short time; it can observe and measure a large variety of factors indicating the status and condition of...
(REACT), a multi-year collaboration to develop technologies for lunar surface constructions within the timeframe of the Artemis Mission: humankind’s return to the Moon. LINA is a step in the effort to expand civilization to Earth’s natural satellite and explore it in a sustainable way that ...
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets ...
One year ago, on February 11, 2013, NASA launched the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Calif.USGS
An astronaut crew's rocket made its last major journey on Earth before blasting off for the moon. The core stage ofArtemis 2's rocket came to NASA'sKennedy Space Center(KSC) in Florida on Tuesday (July 23). The rocket stage was offloaded from NASA's Pegasus barge, which shipped the ...
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— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth)January 9, 2023 While much of the satellite will have burned up as it entered Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, there’s a chance that some parts made it to sea level. However, as of Monday, there have been no reports of incidents regarding falling debris. ...
After completing its first year of observations in the southern sky, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth.美国宇航局的过境系外行星测量卫星（TESS）在完成对南半球天空的第一年观测后，发现了几颗距离地球仅31光年的有...