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New data on the variability of the Earth’s reflectance over the last 16 years (IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
The Earth's albedo, or reflectance, is a fundamental atmospheric parameter having deep implications for temperature and climate change ... One of these, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is a participant, has brought up to date the observations made since 2007 and adds to, and gives a new systematic record of the Earth's albedo covering the period between 1998 and 2014 from California....

Constructing James Webb Space Telescope’s Twin for Thermal Test (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
Recently Paul Geithner provided a closer look at the technologies on the observatory ... The Webb observatory has four main 'elements' -the telescope, the instrument module, the sunshield and the spacecraft bus ... The mirror segments deploy, or unfold, and get aligned in space by commands from Earth ... All of the mirrors working together will provide Webb with the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory ever launched by NASA....

NASA telescope may point to gravitational wave sources

Edit DNA India 21 Apr 2016
On September 14 last year, waves of energy travelling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time near Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in US ... Currently, gravitational wave observatories possess relatively blurry vision....

Peters, Gardner, Booker Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Improve Efforts to Predict Space Weather Events (Gary Peters)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
Scott McIntosh, Director of the High Altitude Observatory ... This can be observed on Earth as the Northern and Southern lights ... The legislation also directs NOAA to develop plans to provide a back-up for the aging Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, the only satellite providing imagery of space weather that could impact Earth....

Gardner, Peters, Booker Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Improve Efforts to Predict, Respond To Space Weather Events (Cory Gardner)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
... have significant economic and security implications, on Earth and in space ... The legislation also directs NOAA to develop plans to provide a back-up for the aging Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, the only satellite providing imagery of space weather that could impact Earth ... Scott McIntosh, Director of the High Altitude Observatory....

The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is About To Happen - Here's How To Watch

Edit IFL Science 21 Apr 2016
The best time to view it is in the hours before dawn ... When these specks of dust hit Earth’s atmosphere, they burn up and create that distinctive blazing trail ... Slooh will also be broadcasting a live feed from their observatory at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands on Friday, April 22, 2016, at 8 p.m....

Hudson River Lab Works to Revive New York Waterways (Columbia University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
There, a few miles north of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, he monitors the river's water quality with sensors that stretch from Rockland County to lower Manhattan, tracking the flow of sediment, measuring overflow from waste treatment plants, and monitoring bacteria, nitrates and phosphates ... of Earth and Environmental Engineering....

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch (ESA - European Space Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
An Arianespace rocket carrying Sentinel-1B is set to deliver the next satellite in Europe's Copernicus Earth environmental monitoring programme into orbit tomorrow ... Thirteen missions, for a total of 18 spacecraft, are now flying and directly controlled from ESOC, spanning Solar System science, fundamental physics, Earth observation, orbiting observatories and Europe's Copernicus programme, while nine new missions are being prepared....

Smithsonian and Yale University Sign Memorandum of Understanding To Create a Partnership for Research and Public Engagement (Smithsonian Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Smithsonian Institution) ... The partnership will focus initially on fostering innovation and activities concentrated in five areas ... Another planned project includes building on the existing collaboration between the Smithsonian's Center for Tropical Forest Science­-Forest Global Earth Observatory and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies around a global network of forest dynamics plots. # # #. SI-202-2016 ... (noodl....

Earth Day 2016: Five things you probably didn’t know about the celebration of our planet

Edit The Independent 21 Apr 2016
Earth Day is being commemorated on the 22 April ... Earth Day is usually a moment to reflect on the importance of our environment and hopefully help change it for the better ... As well as the normal events, Earth Day will will see the signing of the landmark Paris Agreement, which was agreed late last year ... Earth Day has its own flag. The Earth Day flag is fairly obvious ... Earth Day might seem a fairly obvious name ... Earth Day ....

Earth Day 2016: Five things you probably didn’t know about the annual celebration of our planet

Edit The Independent 21 Apr 2016
Earth Day is being commemorated on the 22 April ... Earth Day is usually a moment to reflect on the importance of our environment and hopefully help change it for the better ... As well as the normal events, Earth Day will will see the signing of the landmark Paris Agreement, which was agreed late last year ... Earth Day has its own flag. The Earth Day flag is fairly obvious ... Earth Day might seem a fairly obvious name ... Earth Day ....

Earth Day in Maryland 2016

Edit The Examiner 21 Apr 2016
One of the greatest holidays is in just a few days, Earth Day! Earth Day is a day dedicated to a planet that provides us with everything we need! Although everyday should be Earth Day, this time of year gives us an excuse to get together to celebrate, clean, restore, or take some time to appreciate all that the earth has given us....

Happy Earth Day | Let's Grow Food, Fight Climate Change, Protect the Earth. (IFOAM - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
Protect the Earth. On Earth Day, IFOAM - Organics International urges governments to address the role industrial agriculture plays in damaging the earth and accelerating climate change ... This year's Earth Day sees the signing of the COP21 climate agreement, a commitment to keep global warming well below 2°C and the pursuit of efforts to keep it under 1.5°C....
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