Sentences with phrase «monitor space weather»

«The White House is requesting $ 47 million in fiscal year 2012 to convert a climate satellite grounded by politics into an observatory to monitor space weather and warn of solar storms.»
On its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairs.
The best scientists can do right now is watch the sun for signs of trouble and monitor space weather — the flow of particles and fields — between the sun and Earth.

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Finally, they monitored weather conditions at the site, including the intensity of sunlight, the humidity and temperature of the air in the gap behind the slab (a space as much as 12 centimeters wide), and the humidity and air temperature 2 centimeters from the outer surface of the slab.
«Space - weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades,» said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager.
Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS - RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will operate the craft's space weather monitoring instruments, providing more accurate data about solar storms.
The comprehensive payload of the BEPI COLOMBO mission includes, besides the fields and particles sensors, also a radiation monitor (BERM), and a Sun X-Rays and SEP monitor (SIXS), which will both allow to have a monitoring service of the space weather conditions, possibly critical at Mercury's orbit.
Since this anomaly is hazardous to satellites and spacecraft, and it is dynamic, South Georgia is an ideal location to observe changes in the Earth's magnetic field and monitor and even predict space weather, while also providing key insights into understanding the Earth system.
New instruments will also be designed for the payload, which have all been identified by MOSWOC as critical to the monitoring of CMEs (including coronagraphs, heliometers, gravitometers, and radiation monitors), and must remain operational for a minimum of a decade of extreme space weather conditions.
«To protect our astronauts on Mars in the future, we need to continue to provide this type of space weather monitoring there.»
Regardless of the weather conditions, adaptive cruise control monitors the amount of space between the Levante and the vehicle ahead, maintaining a constant pre-set distance.
Regardless of the weather conditions, Adaptive Cruise Control constantly monitors the amount of space between the Levante and the vehicle ahead, maintaining a constant pre-set distance.
Operational units of FMI apply Arctic Space Centre's data and products for supporting sea ice navigation in the Baltic, air control e.g. in cases of volcanic eruptions, flood monitoring in spring time, and space weather services during solar stSpace Centre's data and products for supporting sea ice navigation in the Baltic, air control e.g. in cases of volcanic eruptions, flood monitoring in spring time, and space weather services during solar stspace weather services during solar storms.
The US government GOES satellites monitor various parameters in space, related to solar flares and other space weather.
The report, featuring input from more than 400 climate scientists working in 58 countries around the globe, includes updates on worldwide climate indicators, significant weather events and data gathered by monitoring instruments and stations on land, sea, ice and from orbit in space.
That workshop is expected to result in recommendations for both weather and climate monitoring from space being forwarded to the appropriate levels of WMO, the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS), and CEOS.
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