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Date Created: 2024-11-14 Larger image

Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Orbital Recon: EMIT Scans The Amazon River in Northern Brazil

by Keith CowingDecember 1, 2024November 30, 2024

Editor’s note: when we begin to survey new worlds up close with reconnaissance spacecraft – from orbit – we will need an array of sensors capable of gleaning as much […]

Algal communities flourish in Lake Erie’s western basin each summer. Scientists are looking to new NASA technology to better track them from space. Instrument: Landsat 9 — OLI-2 Larger image

Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Orbital Biosignature Survey: Lake Erie Algal Bloom

by Keith CowingSeptember 19, 2024September 19, 2024

Editor’s note: with the future advent of powerful telescopes that may be able to resolve habitable worlds in images composed of a few pixels, large biological phenomena such as algal […]

Goddard engineer Murzy Jhabvala holds the heart of his Compact Thermal Imager camera technology – a high-resolution, high-spectral range infrared sensor suitable for small satellites and missions to other solar-system objects. -- NASA

Astronomy & Telescopes, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: NASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New Science

by Keith CowingMay 23, 2024May 23, 2024

Editor’s note: as we develop sensors for the spacecraft we will send to fly by, orbit, and land upon other worlds, packing as much capability into the smallest, rugged, lowest […]

Jared Ralleta and Alice Baldridge at work in Kilbourne Hole, Potrillo Volcanic Field. -- NASA Note: Jared is using a Malvern Panalytical ASD FieldSpec 4 Hi-Res: High Resolution Spectroradiometer with a contact probe.

Astrogeology, Away Teams & Field Reports, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors

NASA Goddard Geochemistry Group Away Team Practices Tricorder Use On Volcanic Deposits

by Keith CowingFebruary 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Location: Kilbourne Hole, Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico

NASA’s Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in a set of images captured in June and July 2022 by the rover’s Mastcam-Z camera system. SHERLOC is mounted on the end of the arm. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Status Report

SHERLOC Dust Cover Issues On Mars Perseverance Astrobiology Rover

by Keith CowingFebruary 15, 2024February 15, 2024

Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras.

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Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Tricorders & Sensors

Tricorder Tech: Miniaturized Infrared Detectors

by Keith CowingOctober 30, 2022October 30, 2022

Miniaturization of infrared spectrometers will lead to their wider use in consumer electronics, such as smartphones enabling food control, the detection of hazardous chemicals, air pollution monitoring and wearable electronics. […]

Multispectral Vegetation Indices

Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Plant Biology, Press Release

Linking Common Multispectral Vegetation Indices to Hyperspectral Mixture Models

by Keith CowingSeptember 4, 2022September 4, 2022

For decades, agronomists have used remote sensing to monitor key crop parameters like biomass, fractional cover, and plant health. Vegetation indices (VIs) are popular for this purpose, primarily leveraging the […]

Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Press Release

Hyperspectral Camera To Fly On ESA's Next CubeSat

by Keith CowingJanuary 8, 2018

Colour equals information, so the more spectral bands an Earth-observing satellite sees, the greater quantity of environmental findings returned to its homeworld. Now ESA is ready to fly a hand-sized […]