[Wednesday, January 4, 2006] "This memorandum is to inform you of the outcome of recent discussions among affected agencies and Executive Office of the President (EOP) offices regarding the Landsat program."

[Wednesday, January 4, 2006] NSF is seeking information regarding the long-term (10 or more years) availability of icebreaking services capable of enabling the re-supply of the U.S. Antarctic Program's (USAP) McMurdo Station.

[Wednesday, January 4, 2006] New research helps illustrate how global warming caused by greenhouse gases can quickly disrupt ocean processes and lead to drastic climatological, biological and other important changes around the world.

[Wednesday, January 4, 2006] International engineering firm AMEC is working with ESA to improve monitoring of ground subsidence linked to mining activity. Radar satellites in orbit 800 kilometres away can reveal millimetre-scale elevation shifts across wide areas of land.

[Thursday, January 5, 2006] The joint NASA/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography satellite ceased operations after nearly 62,000 orbits of Earth. The spacecraft lost its ability to maneuver, bringing to a close a successful 13-year mission.

[Sunday, January 15, 2006] Newly published research results provide evidence that global climate change may have quickly disrupted ocean processes and lead to drastic shifts in environments around the world.

[Sunday, January 15, 2006] Following three months of around-the-clock work, the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Deep Drilling Project successfully completed its operations, extracting more than a mile-long segment of rocks and sediments from the Earth.

[Tuesday, January 17, 2006] The purpose of this open session is to exchange information between Member States and observers of COPUOS and United Nations entities, on activities and initiatives of the UN system in sustainable development and disaster management.

[Friday, January 20, 2006] Five international partnerships have recently been awarded funding through ESA’s TIGER Innovators project to develop new ways of applying Earth Observation data as a tool for water resource management in Africa.

[Tuesday, January 24, 2006] Bob Dylan wasn't singing about upper atmospheric dynamics when he wrote the song, but scientists at the South Pole agree that the answer is indeed blowing in the wind.

[Wednesday, January 25, 2006] "We present the first in a series of four articles which look in detail at the different concepts supporting the main themes of the Cosmic Vision -- Space Science for Europe 2015-2025."

[Friday, January 27, 2006] Harnessing many terabytes of satellite data, the GLOBCARBON project is intended to hone the accuracy of climate change forecasting.

[Saturday, January 28, 2006] USGS and NASA engineers were able to make adjustments to operating procedures for the solar array drive mechanism that now allows the solar array to provide enough power for the mission to resume normal operations.

[Saturday, January 28, 2006] This first MSG-2 satellite colour image of the Earth was acquired on 25 January. It follows the MSG-2 first image, in black and white, which was unveiled on 24 January.

[Saturday, January 28, 2006] The year 2005 may have been the warmest year in a century, according to NASA scientists studying temperature data from around the world.

[Sunday, January 29, 2006] On 25 January 2006, the EC and EUMETSAT signed letters outlining future co-operation on GMES. EU officials say the signing paves the way to a strong working relationship on Europe’s premier Earth Observation (EO) initiative.

[Monday, January 30, 2006] "NASA is clearly doing something wrong, given the sense of intimidation felt by Dr. Hansen and others who work with him. Even if this sense is a result of a misinterpretation of NASA policies ... the problem still must be corrected."

[Monday, January 30, 2006] Two new studies show that mountain ranges rise to their height in as little as two million years--several times faster than geologists have always thought.

[Monday, January 30, 2006] Lying beneath more than two miles of Antarctic ice, Lake Vostok may be the best-known and largest subglacial lake in the world, but it is not alone down there.

[Tuesday, January 31, 2006] If a future space mission to Mars brings rocks back to Earth the techniques used could enable scientists to look at microscopic fossils inside the rocks to search for signs of life, such as organic cell walls.