New Canadian satellites to improve data collection across the North
Three Canadian Space Agency satellites being launched into orbit Wednesday from Vandenberg, California, will connect with Inuvik (Northwest Territories), more
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut’s Mars training ground now available on Google Street View
The closest anyone on Earth can get to Mars right now may be with a visit to a 23-million-year old
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Evidence of powerful solar storm which occurred 2,600 years ago found in Greenland ice
Scientists have found evidence of a major solar storm that hit Earth more than 2,600 years ago — a finding
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Scientists surprised to discover meteor exploded over Bering Sea in December
On Dec. 18, 2018, a large meteor streaked across the sky over the Bering Sea before exploding with 10 times
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New Finnish app tests your astronaut skills
The Finnish startup Space Nation has unveiled a smartphone app — Space Navigator — that it says will help anyone
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Blog: Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
Last week in Seattle, the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting (AOOSM) convened for the first time in seven years. The meeting was
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Military, shipping and polar cooperation – Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Rocket fails, falls down near village in Russia’s North
The launch of the experimental Angara A5 from the Plesetsk Space Center flops. The rocket landed near a local village. The
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NASA projects tracking changes in Alaska’s glaciers and Arctic atmosphere
The U.S. agency that explores outer space is also probing another frontier — the rapidly warming climate in Alaska and
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Finland inaugurates radio telescope in Arctic
The largest radio telescope in Finland was formally inaugurated this past week at Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland. Known as KAIRA
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NASA rover roaming Greenland’s ice sheet
A NASA rover known as GROVER is roaming Greenland to collect data that may help scientists better understand changes to
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