Instruments aboard polar-orbiting satellites, like ones aboard JPSS-1 and its preceding spacecraft, known as the Suomi-NPP, obtain data on the winds and moisture in the upper atmosphere.

on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP, since 2011). These heritage sensors, some of which are still operational at the time of writing, have unequivocally broadened our awareness ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...

DURING the last two months, the Soviet observatory placed on a floe near the North Pole in May 1937 has been drifting rapidly southward in the East Greenland current. Fortunately for the safety of ...

The observations used to derive the global daily SST analyses are obtained from drifting buoys, moored buoys, ships, and infrared radiometers aboard Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites operated by ...

It will carry three NASA-sponsored science payloads to make geophysical measurements ... among the ISS, an orbiting relay satellite and a ground-based observatory on Earth. The first-stage booster ...

“These forecasts are quite encouraging in their increasing accuracy,” said Uma Bhatt, an atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Bhatt spoke about ...