Four new proposals for Earth Science missions have been selected for the next step!
The proposals study gases in the troposphere and mesosphere, measure ocean surface currents and winds, observe the structure of ecosystems and glaciers, and monitor greenhouse gases.
Of these, two will be selected after further design work with an aim to launch in 2030 or 2032 - this is one of the first steps in a long process!
The new Science Explorer (SciX) launches today! This provides search over publications related to Earth and Space Science. It builds on the Astrophysics Data Service to expand similar services of discovery to Earth, Planetary, Heliophysics and Space-based biological and physics sciences.
Working together with IBM, NASA has released an open-source geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model for Earth observation data. This is based on Landsat Sentinel-2 data set and has a range of potential applications.
If you want to see what is potentially possible, I would suggest checking out some of the demos at the end of the article.