Another semester of Observing Earth from Space is complete! Each year, the highlight of the course is the individual student projects, where students use the knowledge they...
Cities are typically warmer than their surrounding rural landscapes, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Although the UHI has been documented as early...
Now a category four storm with maximum sustained winds of 130mph (195km/h) and gaining strength, Hurricane Florence is set to make landfall in the Carolinas by Thursday. ...
The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite was launched April 25, 2018, joining its identical twin, Sentinel-3A in orbit. Less than two weeks after its launch, Sentinel-3B...
Midwesterners are still digging out from winter storm Xanto, which dropped record-breaking snowfall across the region. Xanto was the heaviest April snowstorm on record in...
In November of 2016 NASA and NOAA launched its latest generation of Geostationary Operational Satellites, the GOES-R series. Once this reached a stable orbit and began the...
On February 6, 2018 SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space. This is the largest rocket launch since the Saturn 5 missions to the moon many decades...
