As the first step to fulfil the vision about visiting the Moon again, and possibly build a base there, the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is now in the final stages of building the spacecraft for the first mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Protect our dark sky
The presentation of a new ski jumping hill, Holmenkollen, in Oslo, ready for World Championship in 2011, reminds us of all of the light pollution that prevents even greater parts of the population from seeing a clear sky with all the stellar constellations generations before us have seen.
Professor Ola M. Johannessen, Nansen Environment and Remote Sensing Center
“Satellites are, and will probably still be, the most important tool for climate observations.”
Water and climate on Mars
-more insight thanks to the Canadian MET weather station
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
Eight new mission proposals selected for ESA’s future scientific programme
GOCE
Improving the understanding of high latitude ocean circulation
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission
a guarantee for a continuous Earth observation data set
Ørsted Satellite – The Danish Miracle in Space
Insight in the vortex-like flows in the Earth’s core of fluid metal, information on the electrical properties of the viscous mineral mass in the Earth’s mantle, estimates of the crustal thickness and its remnant magnetism, calculation of the heat flow from Earth’s interior to the bottom of ice caps, measurements of large-scale ocean currents, sounding of the temperature and humidity profiles in the atmosphere, mapping of the electron content in the upper atmosphere, scaling of the electric currents in outer space, detection of the high-energy particles in the radiation belts, estimates of the electric fields in the solar wind.
From Ørsted to Swarm – Challenges for exploring the Earth’s magnetic field from Space
The Swarm satellite mission is designed to provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution. The mission, proposed by a European consortium led by the Danish National Space Center, is scheduled for launch in 2010.
Aurora – Light Dancing in the Earth’s Magnetic Field
The Earth is a giant magnet. This simple fact, established at the end of the 16th century, is essential to an understanding of the processes that give rise to the aurora or Northern (and Southern) Lights.