Researchers are using unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology to scan rock formations in remote areas to better understand what lies beneath the surface and improve understanding of subsurface oil reservoirs.
NASA UAS Eyes Climate Change
NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is in the western Pacific region to track changes in Earth's upper atmosphere and help researchers understand how they affect climate.
Satellite Images Expose South Sudan's War
For the past month, South Sudan has been engulfed in an expanding civil war that has displaced more than 395,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Heat Wave Stifles Australia
2013 was Australia's hottest year ever, and the heat continued into the new year, with nearly 9 percent of the country's cities and towns citing record temperatures between Jan. 1-4, 2014.
Taking Earth's Temperature from Space
The European Space Agency's new GlobTemperature project merges data from several spaceborne sensors to give scientists a one-stop shop for land, lake and ice temperature data.
Unmanned Aircraft Observations May Save Elephants
After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies.
DigitalGlobe Announces Top Satellite Image of 2013
A GeoEye-1 image of Mount Vesuvius was named the top satellite image of 2013.
BARREL Balloons Work with Satellites
The NASA-funded Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) project is unique, as it relies not on one gigantic balloon, but on many smaller ones”20 in total.
Observing the Arctic Thaw
In several months the Arctic will begin to thaw. Perhaps nowhere on Earth is the transformation between seasons so extreme as in the Arctic, especially in the spring.
DARPA Developing New Spy Satellite Concept
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has plans to develop an ultimate spy satellite capable of viewing 40 percent of Earth's surface at once”without glass optics.
