Category Archives: Earth Observation

Icebery B-31

Iceberg B-31, as big as city, breaks free

(Source NASA) – Between November 9–11, 2013, a large iceberg finally separated from the calving front of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier.Scientists first detected a rift in the glacier in October 2011 during flights…

GOCE

GOCE Satellite uncontrolled re-entry Update

UPDATE 11/11/13 – Update from ESA – GOCE has re-entered. The atmospheric interface at ~80 km altitude occurred, following a USSTRATCOM confirmation, at the latest, at 01:16 CET (00:16 UTC)…

GOES-R

GOES-R main instrument cleared for installation

(Source – NOAA) A key instrument that will fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R  (GOES-R) spacecraft, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, is cleared for installation on the…

station northern lights

Very Cool Picture of Northern Lights from ISS

(NASA) This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24, 2010. The ISS…

meteor 9-3-13

Bright Meteor Seen Over Georgia/Tennessee 9/3/13 – Video

(NASA) Early Wednesday morning, at 3:27:20 AM Eastern Time, a piece of an asteroid, about 2 feet in diameter and weighing over 100 pounds, entered Earth’s atmosphere above the Georgia/Tennessee…

Rim Fire Seen from MODIS Instrument

Yosemite Rim Fire as seen from space

The scale of the Rim Fire threatening Yosemite can be seen in these images from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua Satellite. This image was captured on August 22, 2013. As…

south pole aurora

Impressive Video of South Pole Aurora From Space

Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, as seen by the NASA IMAGE satellite eight days after a giant solar flare. Just a very cool animation of the Aurora over the south…

Space Station Sunrise over the Aleutian Islands

Space Station Sunrise over the Aleutian Islands

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this panoramic photo looking northeast from a point half-way along the Aleutian Island chain on August 4th 2013. They were flying east…