India Launches NASA-ISRO Satellite To Track Climate Threats From Space (reuters.com) 16
India launched the $1.5 billion NISAR radar imaging satellite on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, marking the first joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation. The satellite uses dual radar frequencies -- NASA's L-band and ISRO's S-band -- to detect Earth surface changes as small as one centimeter from its 747-kilometer orbit.
NISAR will map the entire planet every 12 days using a 240-kilometer-wide radar swath, providing data for climate monitoring and disaster response that will be freely available to users worldwide.
NISAR will map the entire planet every 12 days using a 240-kilometer-wide radar swath, providing data for climate monitoring and disaster response that will be freely available to users worldwide.
Climate threats from space? (Score:2)
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Interesting (Score:2, Funny)
Why would India pay all that money to send up a satellite to study a fake phenomenon?
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Meanwhile India is the climate threat.
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It's not Indians... [ourworldindata.org]
Interesting. Clicking a few additional countries, I note that Canada and Australia pretty much track the US for the past decade or so. Next tier are Russia and SK, then China (growing), and below that Europe. India is way down there. Also growing, but will take a century or more to catch up (using a linear extrapolation). "Fun" chart to play with, like many at that site.
I applaud others stepping forward to fill the vacuum from a general US contraction in Earth sciences. I imagine that eventually they and o
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CO2 emissions aren't the threat to the environment. Billions of people dumping endless chemicals and trash and breeding out of control while making massive scrap heaps of ewaste and burning it, etc., is the threat. The rich Western countries with their replacement rate birth rates (or below) are sustainable.
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Those mountains of e-waste are coming from the "rich Western countries". Consumer culture is unsustainable.
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India is bad for sure, but they are putting slow effort in, electrification, EVs on the rise, rickshaws converted to nat gas and now also electric ones hitting the street. They acknowledge climate change is real and it's estimated they'll have invested $62bn in 2025 in green energy solutions which is a steady upwards trend over the past years. Meanwhile bordering a different ocean the world's worst greatest democracy is cancelling green energy projects and declaring an EPA ruling that considered carbon emis
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All the more reason for further study.
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The idiot in the White House is also a huge threat, pushing for things that will increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
good luck (Score:1)
> providing data for climate monitoring and disaster response that will be freely available to users worldwide
Wait til the orange boob hears that NASA is giving stuff away to the entire world. That program will be cancelled the same day.
Hoax (Score:1)