MIL-OSI USA: The Meandering Estuaries of Guinea–Bissau
Source: NASA Estuaries near the coast of Guinea–Bissau branch out like a network of roots from a plant. With their long tendrils, the rivers meander through the country’s lowland plains to join the Atlantic Ocean. On the way, they carry water, nutrients, but also sediments out from the land.This natural–color image captures the movement of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Strait of Dover
Source: NASA An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photograph of the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel.Over the years, adventurous swimmers have attempted to swim the 35-kilometers (21 miles) from Dover, England, to the French coastline at Cap Gris-Nez. Swimmers commonly follow a curved path due to tidal […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Rain Soaks the Empty Quarter
Source: NASA Today’s story is the answer to the June 2018 puzzler.Spanning the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, the Rub’ al-Khali is the world’s largest contiguous sand desert. It is also one of the driest places on Earth; however, that status temporarily changed after Tropical Cyclone Mekunu passed over the region in May 2018.The […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Waves of Dust Over the Red Sea
Source: NASA In June 2018, winds lofted dust from the Sahara Desert and carried it over the Red Sea. On June 14, the dust storm had been blowing for about a week. (You can browse satellite imagery in Worldview to see how the storm evolved over time.)But on June 11, the dust had a peculiar […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: A Deep Space Communications Hub in the Desert
Source: NASA When NASA engineers were looking for a place to build a network of large radio antennas in the 1950s, they knew they needed somewhere quiet. They were going to build a series of antennas with huge parabolic dishes and receivers that could detect extremely faint radio signals.They settled on a remote stretch of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Lava Consumes Vacationland and Kapoho Bay
Source: NASA Steaming fissures first began to crack open and spread lava across Hawaii’s Leilani Estates neighborhood on May 3, 2018. Since then, more than 20 fissures have opened on Kilauea’s Lower East Rift Zone, though most of the lava flows have been small and short-lived.Not so for fissure number 8. That crack in the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Martian Dust Storm, Mars Opportunity Rover
Source: NASA NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 13, to discuss a massive Martian dust storm affecting operations of the agency’s Opportunity rover and what scientists can learn from the various missions studying this unprecedented event. MIL OSI USA News –
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane for First Time
Source: NASA NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft on Tuesday. This historic flight moves the United States one step closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspa MIL OSI USA […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: Intensifying Drought in the American Southwest
Source: NASA Much of the U.S. Southwest is heading into summer in the throes of a persistent and ever-more severe drought. Temperatures across much of the region in 2018 have been well above the norms, while rainfall and mountain snow have been well below—a recipe for struggling farmers and concerned forest fire managers.According to the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI USA: First Astronaut of 2013 Class to Fly to Space Available for Media Interviews
Source: NASA NASA astronaut Nick Hague, along with his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will discuss their upcoming mission to the International Space Station in a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, June 18, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. MIL OSI USA News –
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