Students in Texas will have an opportunity next week to speak with a NASA astronaut aboard…
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PIA23221: Crater Dunes – False Color
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…
Apollo 10 Launches Into History on May 18, 1969
When Apollo 10 launched on May 18, 1969, it was the fifth launch of the Saturn…
Living Planet highlights
As the biggest Earth observation conference in the world draws to a close, we take a…
Mission control 'saves science'
Every minute, ESA’s Earth observation satellites gather dozens of gigabytes of data about our planet –…
Scientists propose rethinking 'endangered species' definition to save slow-breeding giants
Conservation decisions based on population counts may fail to protect large, slow-breeding animals from irrevocable decline,…
Owning a dog is influenced by our genetic make-up
Scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the…
Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost
Ice is without doubt one of the first casualties of climate change, but the effects of…
Josef Aschbacher discusses the future of Earth observation
As the Living Planet Symposium comes to an end, Josef Aschbacher, Director of Earth Observation Programmes…
Settling into old age
NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the features characteristic of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such…