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TRMM Watches Richard Dump Rain On BelizeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 NASA satellites have watched as Richard went through a couple of life-transitions over the weekend. Richard developed into a tropical storm last week, intensified into a hurricane and made landfall in Belize and is now a tropical depression, poised to enter western Gulf of Mexico. Richard formed in the Caribbean Sea on 20 October 2010. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Richard twice on Sunday, Oct. 24. The first time was at 0203 UTC (10:05 p.m. EDT Oct. 23). ... read more |
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 NASA Watches Typhoon Megi Dump Heavy Rain Typhoon Megi is now over the South China Sea as a Category 3 typhoon, gaining more strength after drenching the northern Philippines. NASA satellites saw the heavy rainfall and very high thunderstor ... more | .. |
 Insight Into Volcanic Eruptions, Courtesy Of Space Scientists are crediting satellite imagery with helping to predict where volcanic eruptions could strike. It is well known that earthquakes can stress Earth's crust and trigger subsequent quakes, bu ... more | .. |
 Bluefin Tuna Hit Hard By Deepwater Horizon Disaster The Gulf of Mexico oil spill couldn't have occurred at a worse time for bluefin tuna: they had come to the area - a major spawning ground - to produce offspring. Satellites are helping assess the da ... more | .. |
 A New Pair Of Glasses To View Earth Our view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. ... more | .. |
  US oil spill hit a key tuna spawning site: agency Numbers of juvenile Atlantic tuna at a major spawning site in the Gulf of Mexico probably fell by at least a fifth this year as a result of the BP oil spill, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Mon ... more |
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2010The German Aerospace Center and the space company Astrium have recently taken an important step forward in their mission to create a three-dimensional map of the world. On 14 October 2010, the radar satellite TanDEM-X moved into close formation with its 'twin', TerraSAR-X. Before this, the two satellites were orbiting 20 kilometres apart - a flight time of almost three seconds. Now, ... more  
Deauville, France (AFP) Oct 18, 2010French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev launched talks Monday on building a pan-European security partnership. Their summit began over dinner in the French Channel resort of Deauville, two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War and a month before the NATO allies meet to agree their new security ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Oct 15, 2010 Two German satellites orbiting within 380 yards of each other are preparing to create the most detailed map ever made of Earth's entire surface, officials said. The radar satellites TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X will make 3-D maps of the surface as they orbit the globe, sweeping around the planet at more than 14,000 mph, the BBC reported. TerraSAR-X was launched in 2007 and TanDEM-X wa ... more |
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Azeris set to double defense spendingBaku, Azerbaijan (UPI) Oct 13, 2010 Oil-rich Azerbaijan hopes to nearly double its defense spending to $3.1 billion next year to boost its military capabilities, senior officials said. Azeri Finance Minister Samir Sharifov said the plans would increase the defense budget by 89.7 percent, explaining that roughly half of the amount would be spent directly on the purchase of state of the art military hardware while the rest would involve funding of special projects. He didn't elaborate. "Defense spending in 2011 will account ... read more |
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