Bangor, Maine 10:00 p.m. EDT I’m Rafael Rincon, the principal investigator for DB-SAR, and I’m glad to tell you that things went very smoothly today. It was a good start to what should be a great week in the field. I flew on the P3 last week and will be working this set of […]
Of all the Earth sciences, geology has the strongest tradition of visual communication. It’s probably because mapping is fundamental to the field, and geologists have 200 years of practice at it. As a result, they tend to create well designed imagery. Two exemplary techniques geologists use: they almost always include a scale, and they often […]
The video and images below show a very bright meteor that streaked over the skies of Atlanta, Ga., on the night of Aug. 28, 2011.View from all sky camera in Cartersville, Ga., operated byNASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. › View linking/embed version of video Some stats on the meteor:Initial speed: 23.6 km/s (52,800 …
We all know the moon is not made of cheese, but what is it made of? Credit: Sylvain Weiller Believe it or not, there’s a lot of ice on it. Scientists have been able to study samples brought back from the moon’s surface during the Apollo missions. In addition, recent missions like NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and …
We recently received this question from Jeff, a reader in Colorado: We’ve been having lots of hazy days in Colorado. I’m sure it’s common over most of the U.S., Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Most likely, it’s also over Europe. I saw your images of fires burning in Russia. Could it be that a lot of […]
Bangor, ME 6 p.m. EDT From Jon Ranson: We had a great day and gathered fantastic data. It felt so good to be working and getting the data – finally. Unfortunately, our flight only lasted three hours. Then the Mission Manager, Martin Nowicki, came out of the cabin with a serious look on his face. […]
Wallops Island, Virginia 6:00 p.m. EDT From Jon Ranson: I’m back at Wallop’s this evening after a quick trip back home. Last evening we made the decision to not fly today, so the DBSAR RAID could be fixed. I’m not an engineer, and couldn’t offer much to the RAID-fixing effort, so I had a little […]
At Earth Observatory, we try to bring you views of as many natural events as we can fit into a day. Some days, the satellites don’t have a good view. And other days, we have to leave the office because of an earthquake… While most of the U.S. East Coast is talking about the […]
Marshall scientist Bill Cooke and his team, from the Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center, watched the sky during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The team used the Marshall meteor cameras the evening of August 12 and into the early morning August 13 to capture images of the Perseids. Meteor over Tullahoma, …
Ever since we posted an image last week of a coccolithophore plankton bloom, I have been trading notes with Peter Eick, an Earth Observatory reader and seismic surveyor working in the Barents Sea. “I look at your site every morning,” he wrote. “I found today kind of neat since I am in your picture and saw the […]
