For at least the past 50 years, about half of all Earth’s carbon dioxide emissions – human and natural – have been absorbed by the land and oceans. Scientists are trying to understand how much more CO2 this global carbon sink can take, before it spills over. Credit: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory To source
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Rural Biomass Burning vs. Megacity Industry: Who Emits More CO2 | 5-Day Time-Lapse Video
Scientists are studying the heat trapping behavior of CO2 released by land-clearing and accidental forest fires vs. factories in large urban centers. The data producing this simulation were taken during a 5-day period in June 2006. Credit: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center To source
3 Months of Carbon Dioxide Measured From Space | Time-Lapse Video
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Gaia’s Garden – One Year of Earth’s Plant Growth | Time-Lapse Video
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New Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System May Be The Farthest One Yet
Object V774104 was discovered in late October, 2015, and is one of the most distant objects ever detected. It appears to be about half the size of Pluto, but with an orbit two to three times larger than Pluto’s.Credit: Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo and Dave Tholen: Subaru Telescope A newly found object may set a […]
Psychedelic Pluto
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto’s distinct regions. To source
Psychedelic Pluto
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto’s distinct regions. To source
SpaceX Test Fires SuperDraco Engines and Upgraded Falcon 9 | Video
Tests continue for the private space company’s Dragon spacecraft’s launch escape system and rocket. The company suffered a setback in June 2015 when its Falcon 9 rocket exploded during flight , carrying a cargo mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX could return to flight before the end of 2015. Credit: SpaceX To source
Earth from Space
Join us Friday, 13 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A image of Qingdao and surroundings, in China To source
Philae Lander’s Bouncy Comet Landing Reconstructed In New Animation
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Thomas Pesquet closer to space with mission name Proxima
Today, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet revealed the name and logo for his six-month mission to the International Space Station starting next November. Thomas will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space and his mission name of Proxima continues the French tradition of referring to stars and constellations. To source
Ariane 5 Lofts Arabsat, ISRO Satellites in Rocket’s Final Launch of 2015
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launches the Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) and GSAT-15 satellites from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov. 10, 2015.Credit: Arianespace PARIS — Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket on Nov. 10 successfully placed telecommunications for Arabsat of Saudi Arabia and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the vehicle’s sixth […]
Mars' Lost Atmosphere: MAVEN Probe Scientist Explains New Finding
The MAVEN spacecraft recently revealed that Mars’ once-thick atmosphere was stripped away by powerful solar activity at some time in its history. Space.com talked with Bruce Jakosky, principle investigator for MAVEN, about the findings. “MAVEN has been focused on trying to understand the changing Mars climate,” Jakosky told Space.com. Geologic evidence suggests Mars was once […]