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Fault Responsible For Haiti Quake Slices Island's Topography Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2010 
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred on January 12, 2010, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with major impact to the region and its citizens. This perspective view of the pre-quake topography of the area clearly shows the fault that is apparently responsible for the earthquake as a prominent linear landform immediately adjacent to the city.
Elevation is color coded from dark green at low elevations ... read moreNew Satellite Maps Of Haiti Coming In 
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 18, 2010As rescue workers scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of people following Haiti's earthquake, Earth observation satellite data continues to provide updated views of the situation on the ground. Following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January, international agencies requested satellite data of the area from the International Charter on 'Space and Majo ... more
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Next Gen Weather Environmental Satellite Marks Major Milestone
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2010The development of a new series of weather and environmental monitoring satellites has marked a significant milestone with the delivery and the beginning of spacecraft integration efforts for a key science instrument. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) will be one of five instruments to fly on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS ... more NASA Airborne Radar To Study Quake Faults In Haiti 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2010In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America. NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif ... more Congo Receives Help From Space After Volcano Eruption 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 25, 2010On 2 January, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100 000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat. Fears were also triggered in Goma as rumours circulated that an eruption was imminent at the nearby Nyiragongo volcano, which devastated the city in 2002. Following the eruption, scien ... more DLR Scientists Support Relief Workers In Haiti Earthquake Disaster 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2010Following the devastating earthquake on Haiti, relief organisations require rapid, reliable and meaningful information on the local situation, the state of the infrastructure and the extent of the damage for their deployment in the disaster zone. In this context, scientists from the German Aerospace Center are giving important support by providing free access to maps of the crisis region based o ... more |
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ESA's Ice Mission Arrives Safely At Launch Site
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 15, 2010In what might seem rather appropriate weather conditions, the CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite has completed its journey to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, where it will be prepared for launch on 25 February. The satellite and support equipment left the 'IABG' test centre in Ottobrunn, Germany, by lorry on 12 January. The CryoSat mission is dedicated to precise monitoring of the ... more First Satellite Map Of Haiti Earthquake 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 15, 2010A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0. Such a powerful earthquake can make current maps suddenly out of date, causing additional challenges to rescue workers on the ground. Earth observation satellite images can help rescue effor ... more Global satellites unite over Haiti to help in rescue work
Paris (AFP) Jan 15, 2010Some 20 satellites are trained on Haiti taking images to help in rescue efforts after the devastating earthquake there as part of a decade-old agreement to share such data in the wake of disasters. "There is really a strong international collaboration like there was at the time of the 2004 tsunami in Asia or Hurricane Katrina," a year later, said Andre Husson of the French space agency. ... more Europe offers space station as platform for climate science 
Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2010The European Space Agency is looking at proposals for using the International Space Station as a platform for climate science, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Thursday. Seventeen proposals so far have been received "from the climate change community" for using the ISS as a basis for study, Dordain told a press conference. The "call for ideas" issued by the 18-nation age ... more |
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