CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -“NASA’s new Earth System Observatory will expand that work, providing the world with an unprecedented understanding of our Earth’s climate system, arming us with next-generation data critical to mitigating climate change, and protecting our communities in the face of natural disasters.”

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA is currently initiating the formulation phase for the core observatory. The trailblazer for the observatory is a NASA partnership with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that brings together two different kinds of radar systems that can measure changes in Earth’s surface to less than a half-inch.

Detailed explanation-3: -This “Earth system observatory, ” as NASA calls it, will offer insights into two long-standing wild cards of climate change-clouds and aerosols-while providing new details about the temperatures and chemistry of the planet’s changing surface.

Detailed explanation-4: -NASA Earth Observatory Goes to the Beach See the satellite and space-station views of various shorelines from across the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 2020, Gilbert and others announced the discovery of the Earth-size, habitable-zone planet d, which is on a 37-day orbit, along with two other worlds. The innermost planet, TOI 700 b, is about 90% Earth’s size and orbits the star every 10 days.