On 5th of May, at around 6 UTC, a blaze started at the ECO-X rubbish depot in Pomezia, a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Rome (41°41′N, 12°30′E). The fire was active for about two days and the cloud of … Continue reading The May 5th 2017 ECO-X fire event as seen by PANDORA instruments
Herodotus used for the first time the Greek letter “delta” to indicate the area with a particular triangular shape were the different branches of the Nile river deposits its load in the Mediterranean Sea. The extension of a delta may … Continue reading The River delta
The Earth and the Moon behave as single system, rotating about a common center of mass. The main consequence of the eccentric motion about the Earth-Moon center of mass is the movement of the largest water bodies creating a … Continue reading Walking into the Sea
The Proba-V 333m image of 03 March 2015 shows the Manicouagan crater, located in Manicouagan Region of Quebec, Canada. This lake represents one of the largest craters, roughly 100km, originating by an impact of a 5km diameter meteorite about 214 … Continue reading Proba-V: the eye of Quebec
A false-colour image of Italy, as seen in infrared by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation shown in red, mountain area in red–brown and built-up areas as green. Proba-V is a miniaturized ESA satellite (launched on 7 May 2013) smaller than … Continue reading Italy imaged by Proba-V