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Topic: ECOSTRESS
The wildfire began on the evening of Friday, July 31st, after two smaller fires merged and rapidly grew in the hot conditions in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, prompting the evacuation of thousands of residents. Air temperatures have soared past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), stressing the vegetation and turning the area into a tinderbox. By Monday, the wildfire had exploded to over 26,000 acres. ![]() This ECOSTRESS temperature map shows the region surrounding the Apple fire that was raging in Southern California on August 1st, 2020. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s ECOSTRESS takes images of Amazon Fires
The red areas in the images – in eastern Bolivia and northern Brazil – are where surface temperatures exceeded the maximum measurable temperature of the instrument’s sensor (approximately 220 degrees Fahrenheit, or 104 degrees Celsius), highlighting the burning areas along the fire fronts. ![]() ECOSTRESS imagery of fires burning in the Bolivian Amazon on Aug. 23, 2019. Red areas show regions hotter than the sensor was designed to measure (approximately 220 degrees Fahrenheit, or 104 degrees Celsius). Dark wispy areas indicate thick smoke. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA lists Four Uses for ECOSTRESS measurementsWritten by Carol Rasmussen
Unusual heat can be a warning sign of important changes and concerns in many fields of research besides botany. Here are four other areas where ECOSTRESS’s precise temperature measurements could make a difference. ![]() ECOSTRESS’s precise temperature measurements could be helpful for other things besides studying plants’ heat stress, such as spotting new volcanic fissures and hotspots during an eruption. (USGS) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on it’s way to International Space StationNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with more than 5,900 pounds of research, equipment, cargo and supplies that will support dozens of investigations aboard the space station. ![]() SpaceX launches its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo craft carrying JPL’s ECOSTRESS mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:42am CDT June 29th, 2018. About nine minutes and 31 seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 29th, 2018, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying JPL’s ECOSTRESS mission separates from the second-stage engine. (NASA TV) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument on International Space Station to study Plant Water usageNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
That’s about to change, thanks to a new NASA instrument that soon will be installed on the International Space Station called ECOSTRESS, or ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station. ECOSTRESS will measure the temperature of plants from space. This will enable researchers to determine plant water use and to study how drought conditions affect plant health. ![]() ECOSTRESS will measure the temperature of plants from space. Scientists will be able to use that temperature data to better understand how much water plants need and how they respond to water shortages. (USDA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA using new Technology to observe Carbon in Earth’s AtmosphereNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
That seemingly simple question is particularly tricky because carbon — an essential building block for life on Earth — does not stay in one place or take only one form. Carbon in its many forms, both from natural and human-caused sources, moves within and among the atmosphere, the ocean and land as our living planet breathes. To track and inventory carbon and unravel the many intricate processes that cause it to morph across the planet is an epic challenge. And that’s where NASA comes in. ![]() NASA’s latest carbon-observing space mission is the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which is making unprecedented global measurements of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. (NASA-JPL/Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA developing ECOSTRESS instrument to analyze plant reactions to heat and water stressWritten by Alan Buis
When people lose water through their pores, the process is called sweating. The related process in plants is known as transpiration. Because water that evaporates from soil around plants also affects the amount of water that plants can use, ECOSTRESS will measure combined evaporation and transpiration, known as evapotranspiration. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
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