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Women and weightlessness
Following 60 days of ‘bedrest’ simulating the effects of weightlessness on the body, the first volunteers…
B-15A iceberg
The mammoth B-15A iceberg appears poised to strike another floating Antarctic ice feature, a month on…
Satellites watch Naple’ volcano
The world’s oldest volcano observatory has added satellites to its repertoire of instruments to monitor volcanic…
Crossing Africa with EGNOS
Flying over Africa using navigation information via satellite is what the European Space Agency (ESA) is…
Mediterranean heat map
Summer in Europe means time for the beach. Testing the waters is a traditional holiday ritual:…
Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, at the end of the world’s twelfth longest river, as seen by Envisat…
New moon making waves
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has confirmed earlier suspicions of an unseen moon hidden in a gap…
Dust Storms linked to health risk
Medical researchers are using satellites to track massive dust storms blowing across Africa’s Sahel belt. The…
Angolan Marburg outbreak
World Health Organisation personnel combating an Angolan outbreak of the lethal Marburg virus used high-resolution satellite-based…