satellite
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New satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal's Trishuli River caused by Wednesday's deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They said more tankers have been leaving the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf with transponders turned off — known as “dark crossings” — with satellite coverage limited and ship-to-ship transfers increasing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Additional analysis of nearby seismic stations, long period seismic waves, and satellite imagery led to the determination that the seismic event was instead a glacial collapse and debris flow, and that no earthquake had occurred."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
New satellite images from Vantor Satellite Imagery show the shocking devastation along a roughly 10-mile swath of the Trishuli river stretching south from the northern border with China.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This is what people did in the old days before satellite imagery and Doppler radar.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Despite spotting an event on the Sun's surface around three days before it reaches Earth, there are no more sightings until it reaches satellites about one million miles away.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scaling the rocket is critical for most of SpaceX’s major plans, including establishing a base on the moon and putting advanced Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
These abilities could be especially valuable for future networks of satellites operating without GPS.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Earlier this year, SpaceX was awarded the contract to develop hundreds of tracking satellites, worth roughly $4.2 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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