A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low." Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry,according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to survive. The...
At the bottom of the screen, you will notice a timeline. You can click the back button to go back a day and view the satellite images from the previous day; you can always go forward by clicking the forward button. You can also simply select a point on the timeline to skip to that...
Satellites watch as LA wildfires burn out of control in California (video)A deadly wildfire continues to burn in parts of Los Angeles in Southern California, NOAAs satellites continue to monitor the location of the fire and smoke across the region.Space 4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory...
The series of four images (below) show the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) undergoing the final preparations ahead of its expected March 1 launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Click on the images to view the ...
Australia actually appeared to lose lit area一but the researchers say that is because wildfires skewed the data. "The fact that VIIRS finds an increase (in many countries) , despite its blindness in the part of the spectrum that increased more, is very sad," says FabioFalchi, a researcher ...
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