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Earth's forests, vital for climate regulation, face threats from deforestation and degradation. To address this, ESA launched ...
The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says ...
Discover how nearly two decades of satellite data—and the new Biomass mission—are helping scientists map forest carbon across ...
NASA is looking into propulsion problems experienced by a probe on its way to orbit the asteroid Psyche.
In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...
Scientists say the radar will paint the first detailed global map of forests’ biomass, which is crucial for sucking up carbon ...
The ESA launched Biomass aboard a Vega-C rocket earlier this week. The launch vehicle blasted off from Kourou in French ...
The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...
According to NASA, forests worldwide absorb about ... which is key to understanding and assessing the impacts of climate change," ESA Biomass project manager Michael Fehringer said in a statement.
A team of ocean optics experts, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, has evaluated the accuracy of above-water optical sensors, ...
Biomass is the first satellite equipped with a P-band synthetic aperture radar, which is capable of penetrating forest ...