Nasa team scours Moon crash data Oct 10, 2009
They were also observed by Earth-orbiting satellites, including the Hubble Space Observatory and Odin, a Swedish-led astronomy and aeronomy mission. But the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which was launched on the same rocket as LCROSS in June, has been playing a key supporting role. (BBC News -- Americas)
US spacecraft set for Moon crash Oct 9, 2009
Earth-orbiting satellites are also geared up to observe the collisions, including the Hubble Space Telescope; and the Odin satellite, an astronomy and aeronomy mission led by Sweden. In August, the mission was threatened when a problem caused LCROSS to lose a "substantial" amount of its propellant. (BBC News -- Americas)
Observatories gear up for Friday lunar crash Oct 8, 2009
A fleet of Earth-orbiting satellites is at the ready to take a distant look at the collision, including the Hubble Space Telescope; Odin, an international astronomy and aeronomy mission led by Sweden, with Canada, France, and Finland as partners; the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite; NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite; as well as the commercial Ikonos and GeoEye-1 remote sensing satellites. Heldmann said that the Earth-watching spacecraft regularly... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Ozone layer depletion levelling off Sep 22, 2009
Using SCIAMACHY data in limb-viewing observation mode from 2002 to 2008, Franois Hendrick from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA/IASB) and his colleagues from the University of Bremen performed a trend analysis of bromine monoxide (BrO) in the stratosphere. BrO is a highly efficient catalyst in ozone destruction. (Scientific American)
NASA rocket to create clouds Tuesday Sep 15, 2009
A , called Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM), launched in 2007 to observe the natural clouds from space. CARE is slated to launch Tuesday between 7:30 and 7:57 p.m. EDT from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (MSNBC -- Technology)
High clouds usually hidden Aug 16, 2009
On April 25, 2007, the AIM satellite (the acronym stands for aeronomy of ice in the mesosphere) was launched. AIM is the first satellite dedicated to studying noctilucent clouds; its first observations were on May 25, 2007. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
European Satellites Provide New Insight Into Ozone-depleting Species Mar 10, 2009
The following day, scientists from the Brussels-based Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy identified high bromine concentrations in the vicinity of the volcano with Envisat s SCIAMACHY instrument and the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) instrument aboard MetOp-A. (MetOp-A, developed by ESA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), is Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology ... "Because of the... (Science Daily)
CU-Boulder students to be at controls for NASA planet-hunting mission Feb 20, 2009
LASP currently controls four other NASA spacecraft, including the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM; the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, or SORCE; the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation, or ICEsat; and the Quick Scatterometer, or QuikSCAT. With the addition of Kepler, the missions are now probing Earth's surface, ice sheets, land, clouds, winds and solar radiation, as well as distant solar systems. "CU-Boulder will be the only university in the world to control five unique... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
