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May 3, 2024 · Published May 3, 2024 Updated May 6, 2024. Sometime in the next few years — no one knows exactly when — three NASA satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark. Already they are...
- Raymond Zhong
May 3, 2024 · Sometime in the next few years — no one knows exactly when — three NASA satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant, will go dark. Already they are drifting, losing height bit by bit. They have been gazing down at the planet for over two decades, far longer than anyone expected, helping us forecast the weather, manage wildfires, monitor oil spills and more. But age is catching up to them ...
- Raymond Zhong
Nov 30, 2017 · On December 7 - four days before GOES-16 has finished drifting - GOES-13 will begin relaying its data to another geosynchronous satellite, GOES-14. Watching Earth's skies at 105 degrees west longitude, GOES-14 will act as an intermediary, assimilating the data from GOES-13 during its final few weeks in operation.
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Mar 22, 2023 · March 22, 2023. Click here for animation. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take a series of images of drifting clouds just before sunrise on March 18, 2023, the 738th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. A movie showing the images over time can be found here.
Aug 22, 2023 · SMART NEWS. Neptune’s Clouds Have Disappeared, and the Sun Might Be Responsible. Scientists have linked shifts in the distant planet’s cloud coverage to the ever-oscillating solar cycle, which...
- Will Sullivan
Mar 6, 2024 · Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. Clouds are ever changing and give you clues and information on what is happening in the atmosphere. Clouds can tell you if air is moving vertically (or upward) when you see cumulus type clouds growing in the distance.
The same process is happening now. The Moon continues to move away from Earth at a rate of about an inch-and-a-half (4 cm) per year, its drift slowing as it goes. The energy propelling it away comes primarily from Earth’s oceans, which both bulge out in response to the Moon’s gravity and exert a gravitational pull of their own on the Moon.
