Anna Mani, the Indian physicist who built the instruments that gave independent India the ability to measure its own weather, mapped the country's solar radiation and wind energy potential, and helped ...

The SwRI-developed Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) is integrated into NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory satellite to provide real-time, 24/7 observations of the solar ...

Unlike most airplane pilots, ex-Marine Reuben Snodgrass waits expectantly for bad weather. When the clouds crowd down, or sea fog rolls in over Long Island’s MacArthur Field, Rube and his crew crank ...

In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary ...

Radio occultation (RO) instrument from Beyond Gravity. GRAS’ zenith-pointing antenna tracks a number of GPS satellites in range. This is indicated by the blue lines. The track-line changes to yellow ...

While supercomputers, radar and ground-based observations all play crucial roles, it is satellites that have truly transformed our ability to monitor the atmosphere on a global scale. But how do they ...