Sentences with phrase «space agency satellites»

The survey, published in the Journal of Glaciology, combines new satellite mapping of the height of the ice sheets from two European Space Agency satellites.

Johannes Fürst, a researcher at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg's Institute of Geography in Germany, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed years of ice thickness data from European Space Agency satellites and airborne measurements.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

Throughout the Antarctic winter, scientists monitored the progress of the rift in the ice shelf using the European Space Agency satellites.

Kääb already had before - and - after imagery from Landsat and Sentinel - 2, U.S. government and European Space Agency satellites that have, respectively, 30 - meter and 10 - meter resolution and revisit intervals of 16 and 10 days.

Using NASA and European Space Agency satellites, the 2015 study had measured the changing height of the ice sheet and determined that East Antarctica was ballooning upward by roughly 1.59 centimeters a year (at least from 1992 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2008).

Initially, the firm plans to use information collected by European Space Agency satellites, which have a 1 - metre resolution.

A European Space Agency satellite fell safely to Earth on 10 November, despite fears that its wreckage could cause harm.

Planck What: A European Space Agency satellite that can detect slight fluctuations in the temperature of cosmic microwaves left over from the Big Bang.

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This view is from the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 2 satellite.

The European Space Agency (ESA) captured a few striking images from a satellite that illustrate the scale of the damage.

«Thus, our Committee should study how to place radio broadcasting and television transmission by means of satellites under international control, preferably within the structure of the United Nations and perhaps through a space agency.

The European Space Agency «s Gaia satellite has provided the data for an extremely detailed map of the Milky Way — the most detailed one yet.

The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) and Ghana Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) and Ghana Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in 2015.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.

Now, cosmologists using CMB maps from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite have pinned down the timing for one key event in that story — the end of the universe's «Dark Ages,» the epoch that lies between the CMB's creation and the formation of the first stars.

Will the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission settle the debate?

Pan's paper «shows that China is making the right decisions,» says Zeilinger, who has pushed the European Space Agency to launch its own quantum satellite.

The Planck satellite, the European Space Agency's mission to study the CMB even more precisely, could well see them.

Recently, this basic theory of the universe was again confirmed by the Planck satellite, a European Space Agency mission for which NASA provided detector and cooler technology.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

The satellite, now in lunar orbit, carried Indian instruments as well as those from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space space race.

The $ 4 billion allotted for security and space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. 571).

But now astrophysicists have mapped its thermodynamics using X-ray data caught by the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite in a high - speed camera chase.

New research zeroes in on one supernova, called SN 2017egm, which exploded May 23 within view of the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, which monitors star positions.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

On December 3 from a launchpad in French Guiana, the European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave deteSpace Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave detespace - based gravitational wave detector.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

Further progress will come from a combination of parallax, proper motion and kinematic distance data via surveys using Southern Hemisphere — based radio telescopes as well as from space - based data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satelspace - based data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satelSpace Agency's Gaia satellite.

Earlier this year, the European Space Agency's COROT satellite found its first exoplanet, and in 2009, NASA's $ 550 million Kepler mission, the most sensitive planet seeker to date, is scheduled to blast off.

Since the 12 July 2017 breakaway Dr Anna Hogg, from the University of Leeds and Dr Hilmar Gudmundsson, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have continued to track the iceberg — known as A68 — using the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Commission's Copernicus Sentinel - 1 satellite.

Now the Italian Space Agency's AGILE satellite and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope have together detected three outbursts of much brighter gamma rays.

In fact, NASA had explored the technology as far back as the 1960s but lost interest as the agency's focus shifted to the space shuttle; ion engines had been developed only to make minor adjustments in the paths of Earth - orbiting satellites.

Scientists have monitored the progression of the rift throughout the last year was using data from the European Space Agency Sentinel - 1 satellites and thermal imagery from NASA's Landsat 8 spacecraft.

To get the biggest picture now available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected data from 2002 to 2012.

To the left, taken Dec. 5, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 2 satellite collected data to build a false - color image of the burn scar in Ventura County.

These collisions could have left dents in the cosmic microwave background, the universe's first light, which the European Space Agency's Planck satellite is mapping with exquisite precision.

Susskind says there is a chance that the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, scheduled for launch early next year, could lend a hand.

The data came from a satellite telescope called XMM - Newton, operated by the European Space Agency.

In the 2000s NASA and the European Space Agency jointly worked to develop a Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a constellation of three satellites that would form a triangular interferometer with three five - million - kilometer arms.

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

Publicly - funded space agencies, including NASA and ESA, already collect and regularly provide open - access to satellite data.

Researchers, including physicists from Heidelberg University, have gained new insights into dark energy and the theory of gravitation by analysing data from the «Planck» satellite mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Eleven hours later, the researchers had aimed the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton X-ray satellite to catch the fading burst.

In partnership with the German space agency, NASA sent the dual GRACE satellites into orbit in March 2002.

On the other hand, physicists are confident enough of eventual success that they have persuaded NASA and the European Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in 2012.

These two images, taken in 2006 [left] and 2009 by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite, show the rapid loss of water in central Asia's Aral Sea, which is shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

A storm in Africa's Sahara Desert brought a sandy fertilizer to the Atlantic Ocean on April 8, triggering plankton blooms that show up as blue - green swirls in this photo from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.

THE European Space Agency's ERS - 2 Earth - sensing satellite was successfully launched last Friday from Kourou in French Guiana.