satellites
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Space & Cosmos
Powerful new satellites from US and India track Earth’s changing surface
NISAR’s mission will help researchers study how the Earth’s surface changes over time, including the lead-up to the pictured volcanic eruption at Redoubt Mountain in southern Alaska in April 2009. It will help you understand more deeply. Credit: RG McGimsey/AVO/USGS Data from NISAR improves our understanding of phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and damage to infrastructure. Although we don’t…
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Space & Cosmos
Space researchers urge caution as Musk aims to launch tens of thousands of Starlink satellites
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than 100 space researchers have written to the federal government asking the federal government to conduct an environmental review before allowing SpaceX to continue launching thousands of satellites for its Starlink internet service. Signed. The Federal Communications Commission has given Elon Musk’s company permission to launch about 12,000 satellites into space, more than twice the…
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Environment
Road networks stretching into the forests of the Congo Basin: satellites and AI help monitor
Road development in the Congo Basin forests over the past five years. Credit: Remote Sensing of Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114380 The Congo Basin rainforests are the second largest tropical forests in the world, store large amounts of carbon and host high levels of biodiversity. Historically these forests have remained largely intact, but more recently road development has posed a significant…
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