Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought

Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought

NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the Central American nation’s government to declare a state of emergency on July 23, 2019.

EDRS-C Successfully Launched

EDRS-C Successfully Launched

The second satellite to join the constellation that forms the European Data Relay System (EDRS) was successfully launched on Aug. 6, 2019, onboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.