Satellites travel around the Earth all day and all night making images, but a few dedicated photographers make their own images of the satellites from the ground. The solar panels on the Metop satellites can catch the ...
Read MoreDuring a volcanic eruption, large amounts of ash and gases, especially sulphur dioxide (SO2), are ejected into the atmosphere. Because eruptions can happen at any time, it's vital to have an uninterrupted global monit ...
Read MoreData from satellites like Meteosat can be used for climate monitoring stretching back a few decades. But newer satellites are being designed to answer specific questions about climate. Once such satellite is the NASA ...
Read MoreSatellites can help us understand large-scale features high up in the atmosphere and all over the world. The transport of dust from the Sahara Desert across the Atlantic Ocean has a broad range of effects, many of whi ...
Read MoreSatellites can carry out multiple jobs by carrying different instruments and transponders on board. Metop is one of a range of polar-orbiting satellites used by the Argos system to relay radio signals that can help study ...
Read MoreEUMETSAT has been running a fleet of meteorological satellites, providing weather and climate data, for more than 25 years. The satellites are operated in two main orbits: Metop has a polar orbit 817km above the Earth, a ...
Read MoreHurricanes are large tropical storms - similar storms in different parts of the world are known as hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones. They develop over warm water and have very high wind and heavy rainfall. Hurricanes al ...
Read MoreEl Niño is the name given to a climatic event when temperature increases in the Pacific Ocean influence tropical rainfall and other weather patterns around the world. Episodes of cooler temperatures in the Pacific are re ...
Read MoreThe US Space Agency, NASA, has created a range of quizzes to test your knowledge of planet Earth. The agency created the websites Know Your Earth and Earth Right Now to remind people how much Earth observation is done by ...
Read MoreWeather forecasts rely on data from satellites - and often images which don't look particularly spectacular can yield important data about the physical processes in the atmosphere at different times. Some instruments abo ...
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