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NASA, USGS Team Rock Hounding in California Desert
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (483+ words) Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing "fingerprint" detected by a NASA sensor. Their target: a cache of topaz hiding in plain sight. The geologists weren't…...
San Andreas Fault Hits Millennial Stress Peak
21+ hour, 50+ min ago (600+ words) Mirage News Tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in Southern California has now reached, and in some places exceeded, the highest levels seen in the past 1, 000 years, according to research led by Earth scientists at…...
NASA, NOAA Unite for 23rd Satellite Symposium
23+ hour, 42+ min ago (244+ words) Mirage News Submit your abstract for "Advancing Weather and Environmental Science Through NASA and NOAA Commercial Satellite Data Programs," a joint session hosted by NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program, in partnership with the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data,…...
How Can We Push Back Earth Overshoot Day?
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (741+ words) Earth Overshoot Day, the day on which humanity has used all the natural resources that the Earth can regenerate in a single year, falls on 30 July this year. Three researchers from Leiden explain how this date can be pushed back....
Cities Spur Rainfall, Less Than Scientists Predicted
1+ week, 3+ day ago (822+ words) After another spell of wet weather along Australia's east coast, with storms, heavy rain and flash flooding across Sydney and parts of New South Wales, it is natural to ask whether our cities are shaping the rainfall that descends upon…...
New Landsat Science Team Holds First In-Person Meeting
1+ week, 6+ day ago (282+ words) Front Row: Raquel De Los Reyes, Courtney Bright, Forrest Melton, Michael Campbell, Hankui Zhang Standing: Greg Vaughan, Lin Yan, Mike Wulder, David Frantz, Kyle Knipper, Nimrod Carmon, Dean Hively, Yun Yang, Peter Strobl, David Roy, Morgan Crowley, Ned Bair, Phillip…...
NASA Develops Sensor To Improve Firefighter Safety
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (329+ words) With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA's Fire Sense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers…...
NASA Unveils Draft Proposal for Landsat 10 Craft
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (312+ words) Mirage News The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM. gov as of May 18, 2026. This solicitation marks a major milestone in continuing the decades-long partnership between NASA and the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) to acquire,…...
From Seabed To Mars: Why Geological Maps Matter
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (967+ words) From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural resources and the processes that shape our planet and others beyond it. A recent Nature Geoscience paper published by researchers from Australia, Europe…...
Awe-Inspiring Nature Boosts Science Connection
2+ week, 1+ day ago (579+ words) A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, such as an eclipse, they more closely identify with science and feel a greater sense of belonging. Participatory science, also called citizen science,…...