For the first time, a NASA satellite has been launched with the purpose of improving the ability to predict climate change by measuring the heat that escapes from Earth’s poles. The satellite — the first of a pair — is in orbit following lift-off from Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket in Māhia, New Zealand, on Saturday, […]
Researchers with the European Space Agency (ESA) have mapped in stunning detail the extensive retreat of South America’s Patagonian ice fields, where some glaciers are melting at the highest rates on Earth and contribute to global sea level rise. In a report this week, ESA revealed that between the years 2011 and 2017, Patagonia’s ice […]
In an effort to understand how climate change is altering the carbon cycle, a project between the University of Oklahoma and NASA is headed to space. Orbiting 22,000 miles above Earth’s surface, this host of instruments will track carbon as it flows through the Earth delivering real-time data and helping scientists quantify just how much […]
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