Arctic sea ice is not only shrinking in coverage area; it’s also thinning, according to a report and satellite images jointly released on Monday by NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. The Arctic basin is covered in a thick semipermanent sea ice, which is covered...
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India’s 1st Student Made Satellite
Coming April, India’s student community will get a big morale booster when the country’s first student-made satellite will ride into space on the PSLV, (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) along with ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) Risat Satellite. The “Anusat” has been designed by 37 aerospace engineering students with the help of 10 teachers from...
Google Earth to get better with new Satellite tieup
Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of New Mexico in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened imagery for the entire country in...
