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"A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia"
#Indonesia #Satellites #Environment

A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia
“The whale sharks are a good omen for the fishers because they know when the whale sharks come, that means that lots of small fish or anchovies are around,” says Edy Setyawan, the lead conservation scientist of the Elasmobranch Institute Indonesia. It is the relationship between whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and fishers in Indonesia that […]

Some #MapSurfing for #TextureTuesday... This time assorted satellite images from Katmai National Park in Alaska, specifically the delta at Iliuk Arm Naknek Lake (continuation of the Valley of 10000 Smokes)

The Atmospheric Impacts of Re-entry and Launch (AIRL) - High Priority Actions and Recommendations: #satellite close conjunctions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576526004091 ->A new CRASH Clock measures the chance of satellite collisions, and it’s ticking down fast: https://theconversation.com/a-new-crash-clock-measures-the-chance-of-satellite-collisions-and-its-ticking-down-fast-283481

Charge-dependent spectral softenings of primary cosmic-rays below the knee: #DAMPE #satellite sheds light on the origin of #CosmicRays: https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2026/le-satellite-dampe-eclaire-lorigine-des-rayons-cosmiques -> China's scientific satellite sheds new light on cosmic rays: https://english.news.cn/20260430/dca45ad2bde04c2eaf8a735f09ec1679/c.html

Reducing the impact of #satellite brightness for astronomy - laboratory characterization and simulations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/550/1/stag1136/8722194 ("a passive, material-based mitigation strategy based on an ultra-black, aerospace-qualified coating") -> Scourge of satellites could be mitigated with help of ultra-black coating: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/scourge-satellites-could-be-mitigated-help-ultra-black-coating

First Results of a New Inversion Tool for Thermospheric Neutral Mass Density Computations During Severe #GeomagneticStorms: #satellite Trajectory: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/taking-the-pulse-of-atmospheric-drag-to-predict-satellite-trajectory - scientists present a new method for estimating the density of the upper atmosphere to account for atmospheric drag when predicting satellite trajectory.

#SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial #SatelliteTrail pollution in #LowEarthOrbit: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501 -> "SPHEREx observations obtained between May and September 2025 indicate that 73[...]% of the images already show satellite trail contamination, with an average number of N=2[...] trails per exposure, providing observational validation of the published light contamination models."

Looks like we’re now polluting space with satellites so much that stuff is just washing up on beaches. Great.
Here’s another for your collection
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Here’s an Australia news story on it.
#spacePollution #spaceX #satellite #space