Sentences with phrase «satellite images of the surface»

The series is based on satellite images of the surface of Mars taken by the high - resolution camera aboard the NASA spacecraft Mars Renaissance Orbiter.

«In a compact city, building rooftops dominate satellite images of surface heat.

Not exact matches

Planet owns and operates the largest private satellite fleet in orbit, and provides the most consistently up - to - date images of our Earth's surface

Using computer modeling to interpret images from NASA's Galileo satellite, Pappalardo and Barr demonstrated that acnelike markings on Europa's surface are probably bits of ice containing minerals such as chloride salts and sulfuric acid, which lower the melting point so the material can rise from deep below.

For the first time researchers directly measured the speed of a wave located 80 meters below the ocean's surface from a single satellite image.

The flybys produced superb images of the surfaces of Jupiter's large Galilean satellites, revealing sulphurous volcanoes on Io, ice chasms on Europa, huge ringed impact craters on Callisto, and polygonal dark regions on Ganymede.

Dr. Binding has been using the images from NASA and European satellites to monitor the progression of warm weather harmful algal blooms on the surface of Lake Erie since 2004.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

An international team of researchers analyzed the available data taken from all previous studies of the Southern Ocean, together with satellite images taken of the area, to quantify the amount of iron supplied to the surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

The Earth Engine, according to Google's press release, will allow researchers to study Earth's surface, especially deforestation, by trawling through a database containing trillions of data points from satellite images collected over the past 25 years and by viewing results with the Google Earth viewer.

The instruments inside the IcePod capsule provided a closer view of those changes occurring at the surface than existing satellite images.

The accompanying test images of Jupiter's moon Europa, for example, can allow scientists to map changes in the satellite's surface composition.

Composite satellite measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and real - color land and sea ice images for the end of the summer 2011 season in the Pacific Arctic.

This satellite image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights taken by the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, captured on June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm (red) to cold (blue) during the last few months, perhaps foreshadowing a transition from El Niño, to La Niña condsurface heights taken by the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, captured on June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm (red) to cold (blue) during the last few months, perhaps foreshadowing a transition from El Niño, to La Niña condSurface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, captured on June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm (red) to cold (blue) during the last few months, perhaps foreshadowing a transition from El Niño, to La Niña conditions.

The latest image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights from the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, dated June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm to cold during the last few surface heights from the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, dated June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm to cold during the last few Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, dated June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm to cold during the last few months.

A component of the NASA Earth Exchange, OpenNEX provides users a large collection of climate and Earth science satellite data sets, including global land surface images, vegetation conditions, climate observations and climate projections.

The recent NASA satellite images below (taken in the polar regions) provide shocking proof of these sea surface patterns.

This satellite image shows the record melting of Greenland's ice sheet in 2007: the red is the surface area of the ice sheet that had measurable melting during that summer.1

That is, images of the surface of Europa show features that make sense only if the underlying ocean has on occasion managed to rupture its ice cover and spill out onto the surface of the satellite.

Because of the strong contrast in sea - surface temperatures, they are readily detected on infrared satellite images.

(Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of sea surface temperature anomalies as of Aug. 7, 2006.

Chambers and colleagues obtained their results by studying data — taken before and after the hurricane — from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite, which takes detailed images of the Earth's surface.

This image obtained Nov. 16, 2015, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows the satellite sea surface temperature departure for the month of October 2015, where orange - red colors are above normal temperatures and are indicative of El Niño.