Tag Archives: Satellites

Landsat Science

Posted on February 5, 2014 by PlatoHagel

The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth’s surface on a global basis. The data from Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth’s continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a … Continue reading →

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Unleashing the Power of Earth Observations: Barbara Ryan

Posted on January 31, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Unleashing the Power of Earth Observations  Jan 21, 2014 • In December 2013, the Secretariat Director of the Group on Earth Observations gave a TEDx talk in Barcelona, Spain making the case that all Earth-oberservation data collected from governments and … Continue reading →

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Gaia in Space

Posted on December 19, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Soyuz VS06 with Gaia space observatory blasts off from Europe’s Spaceport ESA PR 44-2013: ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion … Continue reading →

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Particle Physics Discussion by Sean Carroll, Matt Strassler and Alan Boyle

Posted on December 9, 2013 by PlatoHagel

New Science Internet Radio with Virtually Speaking Science on BlogTalkRadio Alan Boyle, Matt Strassler & Sean Carroll • Why the Higgs Particle Matters See: Wednesday: Sean Carroll & I Interviewed Again by Alan Boyle The Guardian’s Level-Headed Article on Fukushima Dialogos … Continue reading →

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Swarm

Posted on November 26, 2013 by PlatoHagel

ESA’s magnetic field mission Swarm. A European Space Agency mission to investigate the Earth’s magnetic field in unprecedented detail is due to be launched later this year. Without our planets protective magnetic field, life on our planet would struggle to … Continue reading →

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NASA | IRIS: The Science of NASA’s Newest Solar Explorer

Posted on June 28, 2013 by PlatoHagel

At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its newest mission to watch the sun: the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. IRIS will show the lowest levels of the sun’s atmosphere, the interface region, in more detail than … Continue reading →

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Our Baby Universe with Ed Copeland and Planck Satellite

Posted on March 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Where do the seeds of structure in our Universe come from, and why does our Universe appear the way it does? In this talk, Ed explores what happened in those earliest moments that lead to the Universe forming itself into … Continue reading →

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When You Look at the Cosmos……?

Posted on October 13, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Scientists have turned up rare evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, while pushing closer to a complete theory of gravity. From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. See: SpaceRip.com …..you might be enamored with … Continue reading →

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Radiation Belt Storms Probes Launched

Posted on August 31, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 NASA hosted a two-day event for 50 social media followers on August 22-23, 2012, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) are scheduled to lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V … Continue reading →

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Grail At the Moon

Posted on August 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Grail Recovery and Interior Labratory NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today. As of 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST), GRAIL-A is in a … Continue reading →

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