Satellite imagery acquired by Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-2 provides a detailed view of the ports from which the Global Sumud Flotilla (https://globalsumudflotilla.org/) is scheduled to depart: Genoa (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Tunis (Tunisia), and Sicily (Italy). The mission is organized in two phases: 31 August 2025: vessels will depart from Genoa and Barcelona. 4 September 2025: additional
When we look at the Moon we can easily distinguish dozens of craters caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with its surface. The same happened on Earth’s surface mainly during its early history but very few people know that a similar event could happen again.
Clouds are visible bodies of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere. The origin of term “cloud” can be found in the old english clod or clud, meaning a hill or a mass of rock. Around the beginning of the 13th century the term cloud was then intended as a metaphor to include rain clouds as masses of evaporated water
Wildfire season has just started for Mediterranean regions and considering the climate forecast projections for this summer, for the fire authorities it might not be very strait forward to face.
According to the latest news 150.000 people have been affected and more than 170 are dead, after torrential monsoon rains triggered devastating floods and tens of landslides in Sri Lanka’s southern regions of Matara.
This Sentinel-1 radar image takes us to the major city in the US state of Michigan, known for its Motown sound, rock music, world class museums, automobile culture, sports teams, arts, and theatres: Detroit. The image was created by mediating 21 radar scans from Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured from January 2016 to February 2017 for reducing
With a surface of 13,210 km2 is the largest lake of Venezuela and South America. It is connected to the Gulf of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea by Tablazo Strait and fed by several rivers, the largest called Catatumbo.
While Endeavour is sailing towards Madeira, where she did her first stop for more supplies, we take advantage of this easy navigation time to present the Vessel, the crew and the Captain with his double missions. Let’s sit in the deck and observe our main characters His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour As you can see, she uses
Severe Tropical Cyclone Donna is the strongest off-season South Pacific tropical cyclone on record during the month of May and it has been upgraded to a category five storm, the most destructive wind-speed level. Cyclone Donna increase the category from 4/5/2017 to 9/5/2017 (https://earth.nullschool.net) The cyclone is in north of archipelago Vanuatu located in the South
After the passage of Cyclone Debbie over East Australia, a massive bleaching event over the Great Coral Barrier has been remotely observed from Satellite images. The same event is being assessed by in-situ measurements which seem confirming the severe event.
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 high and low tide. This phenomenon is particularly visible in the northern coast of the
