The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has launched a new mapping tool that identifies high risk areas for 18 different natural hazards in the country. This new application offers data about expected annual losses, social vulnerabilities & community resilience. According to FEMA, the new index is intended to help people better understand the natural hazard […]
Earth Science News
China Launches Moon Mission
While it was an exciting week last week in space news with the launch of American and Japanese astronauts on a SpaceX rocket followed by the launch of the European/American Sentinel-6 Earth Observing satellite, China is about to embark on an even more impressive mission. Today they launched a spacecraft to the moon that’ll retrieve […]
Thanksgiving Forecast: Showers on Coasts, Fair Elsewhere
Based on the American GFS forecast model, precipitation on Thanksgiving afternoon will be limited to portions of the eastern U.S., the Gulf Coast, and the Pacific Northwest. Image: tropicaltidbits.com With Thanksgiving 2020 days away and government officials encouraging people to skip Thanksgiving Dinner entirely or hold it outside if they do due to the ongoing […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches Sentinel-6
At 9:17am this morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, SpaceX successfully launched the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Earth-observing satellite into space. Moments after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched, the first stage booster returned to Vandenberg, completing its round-trip journey to deploy Sentinel-6. Known as the “Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich”, it and its twin satellite, […]
Weather “GO” For Sentinel-6 Launch Today
Space agencies NASA and ESA say weather is “go” for launch for today’s expected lift-off of the Sentinel-6 Earth-observing satellite. Named after former NASA Earth Science Division Director Michael Freilich, the satellite is mounted atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which is scheduled to launch at 9:17am from California (18:17am CET, 12:17pm ET). Team A […]
Sentinel-6 Earth Observing Satellite Launching Tomorrow
The latest in the series of Sentinel Earth-observing satellites is due to launch tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, from California at 9:17am local time. Known as the “Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich”, it and its twin satellite, the Sentinel-6B, make up the Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission, which was developed by ESA (European Space Agency), the European Organisation for the Exploitation […]