Scientists Highlight Surprising New Threat to Satellites: Climate Change
By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new ...
Yahoo13 天
Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn
Parker and his colleagues set out to close this knowledge gap. They used atmospheric modeling to determine the satellite load ...
Earth.com12 天
Climate change is shrinking Earth’s atmosphere - and that’s bad for satellites
Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...
Climate change could affect Earth's orbit and litter space with 'millions of pieces of junk'
have calculated that space will be a lot more crowded by the year 2100. The number of satellites that could sit in low Earth ...
Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably ...
Climate change could be threatening satellites as they orbit in space: Study
The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...
Business Insider6 年
Disturbing before-and-after images show how parts of San Francisco could be underwater by 2100
Nearly a decade ago, researchers estimated that, by the year 2100, rising sea levels would ... Business Insider turned to Climate Central's Google Earth plug-in, which depicts San Francisco ...