Do giant flashes of lightning striking upwards from thunder clouds merely pose an extraordinarily spectacular view?…
MERIS/AATSR sensors with many uses
Two satellite sensors work better than one for the study of Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and land…
Coral Reefs detected from orbit
Australian researchers have found Envisat’s MERIS sensor can detect coral bleaching down to ten metres deep.…
New York from space
An Envisat view of the East Coast of the United States including the city of New…
SHUTTLE FUEL TANK
Less than a month after being hit by Hurricane Katrina, NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New…
Growing lettuce for Mars, Arctic style
The 2005 field season on Devon Island has been the smoothest since the start of the…
BIG BABY GALAXIES IN NEWBORN UNIVERSE
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, have teamed up to “weigh”…
The Next Giant Space Telescope
The Canadian Space Agency recently awarded a $26.2-million contract to the Space and Technology Group of…
PLUTO SPACE PROBE
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday for final preparations…
SMART-1 set for more lunar science
ESA’s SMART-1 mission in orbit around the Moon has had its scientific lifetime extended by ingenious…