Forest fires alone destroyed more than 33000 square miles (85500 square km) of forest between 1999 and 2010 according to a recent NASA release.
#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
The ESA hopes the resulting data and 3d forest maps will help researchers measure the total amount of carbon stored in forests
and global warming Hank Shugart an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA said in a statement.
and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites of which three are currently in orbit.
The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The towering Saturn V launched from the Kennedy space center in Florida. It stood 363 feet (110 m) high
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Astronauts Drink Urine and Other Waste</a p><p>The trend of new moms eating their placenta after giving birth has been on the rise in certain segments of the U s. population for years now.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
#Radar Plane Scans South american Landscapes NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
After generating massive amounts of data using next-generation gene sequencers they used the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to align organize
Before we had access to Ranger it would take weeks and months to run. Ranger does the same analyses in hours.
So it's been a very powerful tool to give us quick ideas about how different strains are related to each other.
The time that Ranger saves the researchers doesn't just get them to an answer faster.
With Ranger we can redirect our time away from just finding the best tree for a dataset towards asking how different that best tree is from
 It was as it turns out bugs said Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who designed the computer program inâ a NASA statement.
but will if the insects return in following years NASA reported. Landtrendr is still in development
but has changed already the way the U s. Forest Service monitors ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest according to the NASA statement.
a longstanding cooperative agreement between UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center;
and even tiny spaceships made of deep fried scallops. Novelty food suppliers have become early adopters of similar technology.
And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.
Beyond providing cosmic delivery food would also be tailored for astronauts'daily activities. will printed food go beyond novelty value?
The researchers using NASA imagery and historical data found that every time there is a major flood terraces fail
That s the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover
Curiosity's smaller older cousins NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers found plenty of evidence of ancient Martian water after touching down in 2004
NASA satellites that studied the parched land determined that the drought depleted the region's aquifers to low levels that had rarely been seen
Since the start of the Industrial revolution human activities have increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by a third according to NASA.
The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by the oceans the land and the atmosphere according to NASA.
and methane levels have increased a whopping 148 percent according to NASA and most of that increase has been in the past 50 years.
Though the existence of global warming was considered once controversial it is acknowledged now as real by an overwhelming majority of researchers throughout the international scientific community according to the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA.
About 30 percent of the radiation striking Earth's atmosphere is reflected immediately back out to space by clouds ice snow sand and other reflective surfaces according to NASA.
It's this equilibrium of incoming and outgoing radiation that makes the Earth habitable with an average temperature of about 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) according to NASA.
Since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the early 1800s the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially CO2 according to NASA.
If global warming continues unchecked it will cause significant climate change a rise in sea levels increasing ocean acidification extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts according to NASA the EPA
Service whose Climate Change Tree Atlas forecasted the shift. Though trees that currently populate more Southern states might move in to fill that space few
It also became part of a long line of animal astronauts. But since science has proved time and again that humans can survive the extraterrestrial trip why do countries bother sending monkeys and other living creatures up into space at all these days?
And for a price a Texas-based company called Nanoracks will send scientists'projects up to the International Space station Szewczyk said.
During that time a space capsule wouldn't completely insulate life from bombardment with cosmic radiation zero air pressure and cold temperatures.
Of course the biggest efficiency booster of all could be President Barack Obama's climate action plan
and if they're not altered by the courts they should be very effective in reducing CO2 emissions from the power sector said NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies researcher Drew Shindell.
This image of tule fog was taken Jan 17 2011 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite according to NASA's Earth Observatory
when they discovered the Amazon forest turns green during the tropical dry season from June through October even during an extreme drought based on data from NASA's Terra satellite.
We think we have uncovered the mechanism for the appearance of seasonal greening of Amazon forests shadowing within the canopy that changes the amount of near-infrared light observed by MODIS lead study author Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images
NASA has been funding research into methods of storing food for long periods while keeping astronauts healthy.
In the near term before colonists can construct greenhouses they will have to use artificial light from LEDS for example to power their plants'photosynthesis. NASA has conducted plant-growth research in microgravity aboard the International Space station (ISS) and in the Long Duration Exposure
Placing a laboratory near the International Space station (ISS) would be one logical way of doing this;
and a spent final-stage booster rocket at the other. The lab would have to remain close enough
For this to become a viable possibility NASA engineers would have to solve some daunting technological materials-science and physics issues.
Unmanned spacecraft can carry experiments and float freely in Earth's orbit as the Long Duration Exposure Facility did.
Indeed astronauts have grown successfully peas and mizuna lettuce in space along with carbohydrate staples like wheat and rice.
just as astronauts do today. All of the above-mentioned crops can grow hydroponically to conserve space and resources.
NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza. The grasshoppers would make a better dessert if dipped in the 3d printed chocolate.
The worldwide adoption of the hazard analysis critical control points system HACCP originally developed by NASA to protect astronauts from food poisoning makes it less likely that the world food supply could lead to a major epidemic
We can t have prairie without fire Jason Hartman of the Kansas Forest Service told NASA's Earth Observatory which released the satellite image today (April 9).
This image snapped by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite was acquired March 31.
In October 1995 NASA and the University of Wisconsin created the technology to do so with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages
The stunning shot comes courtesy of Jim Hansen of the Central Oregon Fire Management Service who snapped it from a 337 Skymaster airplane on June 7 according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
along with Hansen's photograph by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a view of the Two Bulls fire from space.
Taken by an instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite on June 8 this image shows smoke from the fire.
Satellite monitoring of methane emissions will get a much-needed boost next year with the planned launch in 2015 of the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument aboard a Sentinel satellite operated by the European space agency.
David Bowman receives funding from ARC NASA TERN and NERP. This article was published originally on The Conversation.
In comparison global average temperatures have risen about 1. 4 degrees F (0. 8 degrees C) according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
#Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar system's Edge a'Cosmic Roadmap'A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of roadmap in the sky for the interstellar
By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions
Photos and Images from NASA's IBEX Spacecraft What I always have been trying to do was to establish a clear connection between the very high-energy cosmic rays we're seeing from the ground
This is a region that only one mission NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached so far
This stands in contrast to findings from NASA and other science groups saying Voyager 1 is definitively in interstellar space.
Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening. Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
Supplement makers market Vitamin b12 as an energy and endurance booster particularly for athletes. People also take Vitamin b12 to improve their mood and concentration as well as their immune system.
former NASA astronaut Mike LÃ pez-Alegrã a told Live Science last week ahead of the party.
retired NASA astronaut Franklin Chang DÃ az; and planetary scientist Maria Zuber. Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast.
Longtime growers are even pulling in new talent with rã sumã s featuring university professorships and stints at NASA.
Denver Relief just hired a former NASA scientist Neil Yorio who worked on lighting technology for long-duration space missions to develop new options for marijuana growers.
I was hanging out at Spacex NASA JPL and Caltech talking to astrophysicists and engineers and just trying to get some ideas about our human perspective
When I was discussing the idea with an astrophysicist at JPL he upped the ante
and its residents according to Rosaly Lopes a volcanologist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Lopes was not a consultant on the film.)
The new Global Forest Watch will update monthly at a medium resolution with data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra and Aqua satellites.
but every year the map updates with much finer-grained imagery from NASA's Landsat program.
Lead study author Fernando Espã rito-Santo a research scientist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena Calif. combined satellite data airborne lidar (laser surface imagery)
We found that large natural disturbances the sort not captured by plots have only a tiny effect on carbon cycling throughout the Amazon study co-author Sassan Saatchi of JPL said in a statement.
In order to make agricultural waste into a suitable fuel for jet engines manufacturers would first need to break it down into sugars mixed with yeast
When mixed with kerosene theses hydrocarbons can be burned in jet engines. The hard part will be finding the most suitable microorganisms
The larger global community has credible evidence that where national park rangers and community ecoguards are out patrolling
Electronics and spacecraft parts are manufactured in clean rooms the latter because scientists would rather not find life on mars only to learn humans put it there.
because it can contribute to high ozone levels near the ground said NASA's Earth Observatory.
when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.
#Strange Spikes Over Siberia Puzzle Astronauts Houston we have a question: What are these weird spiky shapes we're
That's what astronauts were asking this June when the sight of strange dark-green features running along Siberia's Kulunda Steppe left them stumped according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
The curving features streak across the plain near the Ob river and can be seen from the International Space station (ISS)
when it flies over the Northern hemisphere's 52nd parallel the highest latitude of its orbit.
Fortunately for the ISS astronauts'burning curiosity researchers at NASA Johnson Space center in Houston had answers.
The spikes also appear in a winter scene snapped by an ISS astronaut more than a decade ago in 2003.
The only thing holding it in is said the ice shelf Robert Thomas a glaciologist at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island Va. who was involved not in the study.
According to NASA the first living creature in space was named a rhesus monkey Albert I. His launch took place in White sands New mexico on June 11 1948.
NASA's Earth Observatory released a new high-resolution image of an Alaskan forest near the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge that has been left off of most maps.
because it is so difficult to reach Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland told the Earth Observatory.
and a group of NASA researchers are sweeping across the Alaskan landscape in a low-flying airplane equipped with a portable imaging system called G-Liht.
NASA's Landsat satellites which have been snapping pictures of the Earth's surface for more than 40 years now have instruments that can produce images with 49-to 98-foot (15 to 30 m) resolutions.
#NASA Video Captures Stunning Volcano Eruption View from Space On June 12 2009 the International Space station happened to be passing over the Sarychev Volcano
A newly released video based on several stunning snapshots taken by astronauts reveals the beauty and power of the erupting volcano.
The plume was so immense that it cast a large shadow on the island according to NASA Earth Observatory.
and settled ash veiled nearly all of the vegetation on the island's northwestern end according to NASA Earth Observatory.
when NASA launches its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite in July. The Los alamos team clearly demonstrated the value of remote sensing for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions said David Crisp the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) science lead at NASA s Jet propulsion laboratory.
Crisp is unaffiliated with the Los alamos study.##oeto fully exploit this capability we need to acquire measurements like this at high spatial resolution over the entire globe#Crisp said.
Brown bears are found in more places than any other bear species. They live in northwestern North america the Atlas Mountains of northwestern Africa northern Asia Europe and the Middle east.
NASA's Terra satellite went leaf peeping last week from its perch about 438 miles (705 kilometers) above the planet.
The images were released today (Sept. 30) by NASA's Earth Observatory. In Photos: Fall Foliage Seen from Space As the Earth Observatory notes the brown and orange hues are currently most prominent in Michigan's Upper Peninsula northern Wisconsin upstate New york New hampshire Vermont Maine and southern
Simulations featured in the Climate Change Tree Atlas show how some populations of fall favorites might shift.
Nature Newsthe climate community is counting the costs of losing NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO),
an instrument aboard the European space agency's Envisat that uses similar technology but has much lower resolution.
NASA can also perform some CO2 monitoring with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, launched aboard the Aqua satellite in 2002.
The European space agency (ESA) is mulling whether to proceed on a more advanced version of the OCO mission.
a researcher who worked on an independent feasibility study of A-SCOPE for ESA at the Laboratory for Climate Sciences and the Environment in Saclay.
Brã on believes that the ESA will not proceed with an A-SCOPE in the near term,
If NASA has the money, he hopes the agency will put another OCO up quickly
The question facing NASA is whether to push forward with an OCO II as fast as possible
NASA ponders'carbon copy'of crashed mission: Nature Newssince the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) crashed into the ocean minutes after its 24 february launch,
researchers at NASA and elsewhere have been working on how else they might get the data on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that the mission was meant to collect.
Within a week of losing the satellite, NASA, which spent US$278 million and seven years developing OCO, put together a committee of two dozen climate scientists to weigh up various options.
Many scientists, including OCO's principal investigator David Crisp, of the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, think that probing the atmosphere with lasers will eventually offer a way to get round-the-clock data
In a recent competition to design atmospheric-science satellites the European space agency eliminated a laser-based carbon-dioxide-monitoring mission
The technology for a similar NASA mission called ASCENDS (Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights,
or on the International Space station (ISS) would also take a long time, and in the case of the ISS would miss the polar regions.
So as expected the bottom line of the report by Crisp's committee, submitted to NASA on 2 april
Michael Freilich, head of NASA's Earth-science division, has sent the white paper out for review and says he will make a decision possibly in May.
It might seem that the $150 million recently added to NASA's fiscal-year 2009 budget for Earth science by Congress,
a US Geological Survey land-mapping mission that NASA is procuring, and Glory, a mission due to be launched later this year to studyaerosols
which are, after all, NASA's stock in trade leads politicians and policy-makers to neglect ground-and aircraft-based measurements.
Says Ken Jucks, OCO programme manager at NASA, In all our opinions, the need for these data is just as high,
They show up as hot pixels in the European space agency's Ionia World Fire Atlas, which has mapped fires around the world every month from 1996 to the present.
He and his colleagues used cosmic-dust data from the Cassini spacecraft currently flying around Saturn to study grains in the E ring.
is an extension of work done by Sassan Saatchi at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena and colleagues,
South korea's first space rocket:(see image, right. It may have been watched by millions, but the launch of South korea's first space rocket on 25 august was only a'partial success',according to the country's science ministry.
The two-stage Naro-1 blasted off from Naro Space center, some 485 kilometres south of Seoul but,
as Nature went to press, it had failed to put its observation satellite into its intended orbit.
wmo. int/wcc3 31 august The ten-person presidential panel deliberating NASA's future, chaired by Norman Augustine,
Sound bites<br></br>We won't be correcting the atlas.<<br></br>Daniel Gutknecht, Swiss Federal office of Topography The swiss government last week approved expanding the country's border into Italy,
but Russian space agency Roscosmos said last week that Phobos testing couldn't be completed in time to meet this year's launch window.
The US panel charged with reviewing NASA's human spaceflight programme issued its final report last week,
Present funding doesn't match the space agency's targets, says the commission, which is chaired by ex-aerospace executive Norman Augustine.
Many of its suggestions, such as bypassing human exploration of the Moon and scrapping the Ares
A European council summit meeting in Brussels may firm up European promises to finance climate-change action in developing countries. go. nature. com/1kwxls 2 november The European space agency is scheduled to launch its Soil Moisture
The week ahead 9 october NASA's Lunar crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite will crash into a crater near the Moon's south pole,
and detecting ice. http://lcross. arc. nasa. gov 15-16 october'The ambitions of Europe in space'European policy-makers,
Under the changes, bodies such as the National Research Council, the National Institute of Nuclear physics and the space agency, will be able to write their own statutes and regulations.
A NASA probe sent crashing into the Cabeus crater near the Moon's north pole on 9 october ploughed up a plume containing water, hydrocarbons and, unexpectedly, mercury,
at a workshop at the European space agency's centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy. www. congrex. nl/09c26 21 NOVEMBER Part of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act takes effect in the United states. The act,
The collision sent hundreds of pieces of debris flying at high speed across low-Earth orbit, threatening other satellites and increasing the risk to a NASA shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope
To that end, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hosted a conference this month to look at strategies for removing debris. The solutions floated include space tugs and Earth-based lasers.
a payload shroud stayed stuck to a Taurus booster rocket, and NASA's US$280 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) crashed into the sea,
dashing the hopes of scientists who wanted to use the satellite to measure sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (see'Climate researchers in a spin after satellite loss').
'However, only about half of the money from Congress is new the rest must be gleaned from other NASA Earth science accounts.
Moreover, NASA's budget is likely to be trimmed flat or in the coming years and demands for the agency to launch other Earth-monitoring satellites continue undiminished.
Sassan Saatchi, an environmental scientist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, worked on one study with researchers at the carbon consulting firm Winrock International in Arlington, Virginia.
Like the Winrock study, it includes spectral data from NASA satellites as well as laser measurements of forest canopy height from an instrument on NASA's Ice, Cloud,
Sweden. go. nature. com/PUFASN 11 december NASA's orbiting infrared telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, is scheduled to launch. http://wise. ssl. berkeley. edu 14-18 december The American Geophysical Union meets in San francisco,
In May, Steven Pravdo of the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues raised fresh hopes for the technique
Two space missions in the works the European space agency's GAIA, due to launch in 2012, and NASA's Space Interferometry Mission, the launch date for
which is yet to be set will use the technique to search for planets as small as Earth around Sun-like stars,
on 18 february the European space agency selected three medium-sized missions to continue development within its'Cosmic Vision 2015-2025'programme,
The European space agency has postponed the planned 25 february launch of its satellite for monitoring variations in the extent and thickness of polar ice.
Events Wise delivers infrared wisdom NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has offered up the first pictures
Jeff Greason, president of XCOR Aerospace, based in Mojave, California, gets excited by the promise of cheap spaceflight,
NASA announced on 3 february. The mission was slated originally to come to end in 2008, and had already been extended to 2010.
and Technology. go. nature. com/YWJQIN 12 february NASA holds a public'state of the agency'meeting,
The minute specks of dust were collected by NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which launched in 1999 with the aim of catching pristine interstellar grains and bringing them back to Earth.
The Stardust researchers say that the interstellar grains nabbed by their spacecraft may provide a unique way to study the matter between stars.
rather than micrometeorites or even pieces of the spacecraft knocked loose by debris. It took four years of searching to identify the two potential interstellar dust particles,
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