JUNEAU, Alaska — A charter plane carrying eight people crashed Thursday near a remote radar site in western Alaska, a federal official said. Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, said two pilots and six passengers were on board. He did not immediately have details on their status. The plane took off
L-band radar data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite orbiting Earth between the United States and India was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja, a mountain peak in East Antarctica, jutting out in the middle of an ice stream flowing northeast toward the ocean. The blockage causes stresses in the ice,
Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation for NASA’s Earth science research and applications community. The results of these evaluations help inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of these commercial data for use in