The Philippines is evacuating thousands of people, deploying soldiers and positioning emergency provisions as Super Typhoon Mangkhut threatens more than four million people in the north of the country. Mangkhut — stronger than Hurricane Florence, which is currently lashing the US East Coast — is expected to make landfall on…
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Hurricane Florence is battering the coast of the Carolinas, bringing strong winds and heavy bands of rainfall. The National Hurricane Center is tracking this massive storm, which is bigger than the state of North Carolina. The winds for this storm are nearly 400 miles wide – which is the roughly…
read moreMaxar’s DigitalGlobe and LeoLabs working to promote safe, responsible spaceflight
Since the dawn of the Space Age in the late 1950s, humans have been launching objects into space for military, commercial, and scientific purposes. Today, space environment models are used to estimate total numbers of objects in orbit, revealing there are 29,000 objects larger than 10 cm, 750,000 from 1…
read moreExplore how rising temperatures affect Earth
From DigitalGlobe’s unique vantage point from 400 miles above Earth’s surface, our high-resolution satellites can view how rising temperatures affect Earth over time. In a new Voyager story for Google Earth, we take a look at some of these changes. Voyager is a storytelling platform that provides map-based narratives through…
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