July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
... an essential role in the context of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda. The Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and landscapes are being increasingly impacted by human activities. Monitoring and modeling these changes is critical for...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... geographically, located mainly in industrialized countries in the Northern hemisphere and absent in the Southern hemisphere or over oceans. GOSAT The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) was launched in 2009 as the world’s first satellite...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean…That’s Jupiter doing its cosmic job, astronomers like ... Rengel, Raphael Moreno, Slawomira Szutowicz, Geoffrey A. Blake (2011) Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2, Nature, 478...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... made of salty ice, perhaps deposited when the impactor punched through the crust of Ceres into a salty ocean below Image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of Kupalo crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres. It has bright...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...atmosphere which obscures its surface, so it could once be depicted with oceans of soda-water (because of the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere)... have forecast the active volcanoes of Io, the salty ocean below Europa’s icy crust, the giant ice ravines ...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...or hundreds of metres in diameter that fall into an ocean can cause a tsunami that would destroy coastal settlements,...impacted Earth, all on land. If one takes into account the ocean masses as well, collisions with Earth happen on average every decade...
