Remote Sensing
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Planetary Orbital Surveys Using A Tetracorder

by Keith Cowing

In Star Trek, the intrepid explorers use a handheld device called a tricorder to sense, record and compute environmental data. But scientists in the real world have one-upped our fictional friends […]

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Desert Planet Orbital Recon: MRO Images Mars InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement

by Keith Cowing

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency’s retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels. In the new image taken […]

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Orbital Recon: EMIT Collects Data On Terrestrial Plant Communities

by Keith Cowing

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 […]

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Orbital Recon: EMIT Scans The Amazon River in Northern Brazil

by Keith Cowing

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 […]

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White Smokers On The Floor Of The Dead Sea

by Keith Cowing

The Dead Sea is a highly dynamic system: Its level has been dropping by roughly one meter per year for more than 50 years, because it is cut off from […]

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SwRI-Developed Instruments Will Study Potential Habitability Of Europa

by Keith Cowing

Two Southwest Research Institute instruments were launched aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft is designed to conduct a detailed reconnaissance […]

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Astrobiology Biosignature Recon of Europa: Map of Water At Manannán Crater

by Keith Cowing

Colors were mapped onto infrared data from NASA’s Galileo mission in this image revealing locations around a crater on the Jovian moon Europa called Manannán where there are signatures of […]

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