According to a researcher at NASA, the deluge that killed over 300 people, could have been contained if the dams were opened is a systematic manner.
Launched into solar orbit on August 25, 2003, Spitzer was initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission. But the space telescope has lasted far beyond its expected lifetime, the US space agency said in a statement.
Researchers noted that smartphones can be harnessed to forecast flash floods as well as other natural disasters.
The mission, called the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2), is scheduled to launch in September.
The spacecraft has travelled approximately 1.8 billion kilometres since its 2016 launch and is scheduled to arrive at Bennu on December 3 this year.
The approach is similar to that of facial-recognition software. It scans thousands of faces looking for a particular pattern to find its match. More than 1,000 CT scans were fed into the software to help the computer learn to look for the tumours.
Called the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60,000 measurements every second.
The satellite was launched on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on August 22 at 21:20 GMT.
The biggest reason why the total solar eclipse in 2024 has been given such an importance is due to the fact that while there will be several total solar eclipses within the timeframe.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Spitzer space telescope, these digital products were created.
The ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient, according to the study published in the journal PNAS.
Data from the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and the Gaia mission indicates that many of the known planets may contain as much as 50 per cent water.
The mission has already achieved several planned milestones towards full commissioning and operations, according to the mission controllers.
The first unmanned flight as part of a manned space mission will happen two years from now, ISRO chairman said.
He said when India celebrates 75th year of Independence in 2022, "and if possible even before, an Indian son or daughter" will undertake a manned space mission on board 'Gaganyaan' "carrying the national flag".
The 2,000-kg satellite was meant to complement the GSAT-6 launched in 2015 and help in providing technologies for point-to-point communications for military.
In all, ISRO is looking at 31 space missions in a span of 16 months starting September 2018 to December next year.
The USD 1.5 billion mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona.
NASA has launched Parker Solar Probe in its first mission to the Sun
The nature and extent of the solar eclipse, which is the third and final one of the year, will vary from location to location.
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