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January 12th, 2021
NASA’s AIM Sees First Night-Shining Clouds of Antarctic SummerSummer in Antarctica is marked by days in which the Sun never sets, balmy temperatures that hover as high as freezing, and electric-blue clouds of ice. NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere mission (AIM) spotted the summer’s first noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds on Dec. 8, 2020. In the days that followed, the fine wisps
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December 7th, 2020
TRUTHS Climate Change Satellite Relies on Infrared DetectorTeledyne e2v, part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, will supply infrared detectors for the UK-led climate change Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio Studies (TRUTHS) mission, which aims to establish an SI-traceable space-based climate and calibration observing system to improve confidence in climate-change forecasts, often referred to as a standards laboratory in space. Announced in
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November 23rd, 2020
Noise and Light Pollution From Humans Alter Bird ReproductionHuman-produced noise and light pollution are troublesome to our avian neighbors, according to new research from a team at California Polytechnic State University, published Nov. 11, 2020 in Nature. Using NASA satellite data, the researchers got a bird’s-eye view of how noise and light negatively affected bird reproduction in North America. The team also discovered
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November 10th, 2020
Detecting Pollution From Individual Ships From SpaceMaritime transport has a direct impact on air quality in many coastal cities. Commercial ships and vessels burn fuel for energy and emit several types of air pollution as a byproduct, causing the degradation of air quality. A past study estimated that shipping emissions are globally responsible for around 400,000 premature deaths from lung cancer