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The Earth Observer: Jul - Aug, 2018
In This Issue
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- Editor’s CornerFront Cover
- Editorial Sidebar
- “First Light” for GRACE-FO’s Microwave and Laser Ranging Instruments24
- Feature Article
- NASA’s Worldview Places Nearly 20 Years of Daily Global MODIS Imagery at Your Fingertips4
- Meeting Summaries
- CERES Science Team Meeting Summary9
- Summary of the Spring 2018 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Science Team Meeting14
- In The News
- 3D View of Amazon Forest Captures Effects of El Niño Drought19
- Ramp-Up in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise20
- NASA Soil Moisture Data Advances Global Crop Forecast22
- Announcement
- Now Available: NASA Science Presentations from the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting26
- Regular Features
- NASA Earth Science in the News25
- Science Calendars27
Editor’s Corner
Steve Platnick
EOS Senior Project Scientist
The year 2018 is shaping up to be another busy one for NASA’s Earth Science satellite missions. Already two launches have taken place, and two more are scheduled by the end of the year, which shows the plan for the NASA Earth Science fleet through 2023, and highlights the recent launches.
On June 29, 2018, NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument successfully launched aboard the SpaceX commercial resupply mission-15 (CRS-15) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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