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Melting ice on part of Antarctica has revealed traces of an ancient civilization, says William James Veall. Veall is an independent researcher who uses a remote sensing satellite to look for sites of potential archaeological interest. He studied engineering at Basingstoke and Southampton Colleges of Technology and archaeology at the University of Southampton in the […] -
NASA’s Terra satellite has documented the changes in Aral Sea over the years and images show the water body being a fraction of the size in early 2000s compared to what it was in 1960s.
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Tokyo’s 2020 opening ceremony may be a unique entertainment spectacular. Japanese start-up company ALE Co., Ltd. would like to create a man-made meteor shower for the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics, hosted by Japan. Hundreds of multi-colored shooting stars would light up the skies around Tokyo at a diameter of up to 125 miles. The technology for this endeavor […]
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William Gadoury, a 15-year-old boy, reportedly discovered an ancient Mayan city using satellite photos and ancient astronomy.
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See full coverage of the Fort McMurray wildfires here The wildfires in the Fort McMurray area, Alberta, Canada, are not yet under control, but firefighters are hoping the weather will help quell the spread. A May 8, 4:15 p.m. update on an official Alberta website, said the fire was spread over 161,000 hectares (over 620 square […]
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The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in October 2016 could offer a whole new way to predict hurricanes, providing information at time and space scales not previously possible.
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TOKYO—Here’s a bit of Super Bowl trivia: North Korea’s newest satellite passed almost right over the stadium just an hour after it ended. Whatever motives Pyongyang may have about using its rocket launches to develop nuclear-tipped long-range missiles, it now has two satellites circling the Earth, according to NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, which […]
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The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has invested much effort into space-based assets and has redefined its strategic policy to reflect these capabilities.
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An Air Force satellite exploded over the Earth adding 43 to the more than 500,000 pieces of space junk around the planet NASA already tracks
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His aim is to make it possible so that people in sparsely-populated areas of the world can gain access to the Internet where other conventional methods have failed to deliver. This particular project has raised many questions about the viability of the new space-based network, including the ability to eventually reach Mars.
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SpaceX wants to launch a satellite Internet network, and Google might be helping fund the project.
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Both Google and SpaceX are companies known for taking on huge projects that seem to come out of science fiction. Because of this, it’s all too appropriate that the companies will reportedly team up on a hugely ambitious project that could vastly expand access to the Internet across the world.
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Daily Overview is a project that aims to help change how we see Earth. It shows at least one satellite image a day from shows many satellite photos but at least once a day from Digital Globes, a provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services.
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The tiny British package will be launched into space today and it contains a nanosatellite, called UKube-1.
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Satellite imagery is being used to help save Australia’s greatest natural wonder. Researchers at James Cook University have developed a new technique employing NASA satellite images to analyse the impact of flood plumes in the Great Barrier Reef. According to UNESCO, the Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems […]
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The idea of using satellites to monitor wildlife and biological diversity probably conjures up images of radio-collared deer or tagged turtles. And while these have been key to increasing our understanding of animal distribution worldwide, we can track a lot more from space than you’d imagine – and it’s not necessary to capture and fit a tracking device first.
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A judge in China recently told family members that no appeals or defense attorneys would be allowed in a long running Falun Gong case.
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Landsat 1 satellite was launched July 23, 1972, starting the longest continuous observation of Earth from outer space. See 10 of its most memorable images since then
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Few places on our planet have been unaffected by humans. Satellite images taken from hundreds of kilometres above Earth reveal a world irrevocably changed by our land use over just the past few decades.
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Seven satellites including SARAL (satellites for collecting data on oceans) were launched on 25th February from India on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
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Despite being described as a great success by North Korean state media, the satellite the country launched into orbit last week is little more than space debris.
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A new quantum teleportation record has been set, transmitting information via entangled photons across 143 kilometers (89 miles).
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An American archaeologist has discovered two pyramid-shaped features in Egypt using satellite imagery.
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What satellite technology became widely available with the flip of a switch by the White House on May 2, 2000?
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Nearly 600,000 emperor penguins have been recorded in Antarctica, almost double previous estimates, with satellite mapping technology.
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