Earth Observation
Gravity Map Released
Image credit: NASA The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) mission has created the most accurate map of the Earth's…
Mars Express Says Goodbye to the Earth and Moon
Image credit: ESA Now well on its way to the Red Planet, the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took…
Earth Could Have Formed Quickly
Our Earth might have formed a lot earlier that astronomers previously believed, maybe as quickly as 10 million years after…
Earthquakes Simulation Could Lead to Quake Forecasts
Image credit: NASA NASA scientists are working on ways to predict earthquakes using an advanced computer simulation. The software is…
Photos of Mt. Etna Captured By Four Satellites
Image credit: NASA By combining the data from four separate instruments, NASA scientists are able to study the Earth's volcanoes…
New Mission to Study the Earth’s Clouds
Image credit: NASA CloudSat, a new satellite mission planned to launch in 2004, will use an advanced radar to study…
QuikScat Captures Images of Melting Ice Shelf
Image credit: NASA An instrument on board NASA's Quick Scatterometer spacecraft has detected the earliest melting in Antarctica's Larsen Ice…
ICESat Launches
Image credit: NASA A satellite designed to track the changes in the Earth's major ice sheets was launched on Sunday…
Grace Maps the Earth’s Gravitational Field
The US-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission (aka Grace) has taken the last two weeks to produce the most…
View of Colorado Fire from Space
Image credit: NASA A new photo released from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the huge swath of destruction caused by the…