[Thursday, March 1, 2007] For the first time, scientists can track solar storms from the sun to Earth using the latest images from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.

[Thursday, March 1, 2007] Today marks the official start of International Polar Year 2007-2008, a worldwide science programme focused on the Arctic and Antarctic. ESA is contributing to this important initiative.

[Thursday, March 1, 2007] NASA has funded the Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) mission to develop and test technologies that might someday be used to explore the oceans hidden under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.

[Saturday, March 3, 2007] The EMSA and ESA have signed an agreement between the two agencies, strengthening the framework for cooperation in the field of maritime monitoring and surveillance.

[Saturday, March 3, 2007] On Feb. 25, 2007 there was a transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun - but it could not be seen from Earth. This sight was visible only from the STEREO-B spacecraft in its orbit about the sun.

[Monday, March 5, 2007] Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth's crust appears to be missing. Instead, the mantle is exposed on the seafloor, 3000m below the surface.

[Thursday, March 8, 2007] Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth’s most extreme regions and potentially in outer spac

[Friday, March 9, 2007] Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Golden, Colo., have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite to create the most detailed, high-resolution map ever produced of Antarctica.

[Friday, March 9, 2007] The second triennial Planetary Defense Conference is being held this week. Following is a report of some highlights from the first two days (dealing with NEA surveys and population, characterization, and technologies for deflection).

[Friday, March 9, 2007] Below is a report on the second half of the Planetary Defense Conference held this week in Washington DC. These sessions dealt with a range of societal and strategy issues, and in this summary I am reporting on only a few of the papers.

[Friday, March 9, 2007] Section 321 of the NASA Authorization Act of 2005, also known as the George E. Brown, Jr. Near-Earth Object Survey Act, directs the NASA Administrator to transmit an initial report to Congress not later than one year after the date of enactment.

[Monday, March 12, 2007] Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth's magnetic field. Thanks to ESA's Cluster satellites they detected an electric field thought to be a key element in the process of 'magnetic reconnection'.

[Monday, March 12, 2007] The decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the mission is now well on the way to recovery, with a design that incorporates no less than 85 separate improvements.

[Monday, March 12, 2007] Just as explorers once searched the Africa's Nile River for clues to its behavior and ultimate source, modern-day scientists are searching Antarctica for its hidden lakes and waterways that can barely be detected at the surface of the ice sheet.

[Tuesday, March 13, 2007] NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft arrived Saturday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for a targeted April 25 launch aboard a Pegasus XL rocket.

[Wednesday, March 14, 2007] A NASA Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21 will be held to discuss never-before-seen observations from an international mission studying the sun.

[Wednesday, March 14, 2007] A recent NASA study links natural and human-made aerosol particles to how much Earth warms or cools. Earth's atmosphere acts as a protective shield that regulates how much solar energy the planet absorbs or deflects.

[Friday, March 16, 2007] A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ground.

[Friday, March 16, 2007] Scientists have identified four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations

[Friday, March 16, 2007] Researchers have determined the three-dimensional structure of an RNA enzyme. Their results provide insight into what may have been the first self-replicating molecule to arise billions of years ago on the evolutionary path toward the emergence of life.

[Friday, March 16, 2007] The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) on board MetOp-A currently undergoing commissioning has delivered the first geophysical products for monitoring the Earth's ozone layer, and European and global air quality.

[Monday, March 19, 2007] The House Science & Technology Committee will hold a joint hearing along with the Energy & Commerce Committee to receive testimony from Former Vice President Al Gore and others on global climate change.

[Monday, March 19, 2007] NASA Researchers have analyzed Egyptian records of annual Nile water levels collected between 622 and 1470 A.D. at Rawdah Island in Cairo. These records were then compared to another well-documented human record from the same time period.

[Tuesday, March 20, 2007] "What I attach is approximately a parallel analysis of the various alternatives for diverting a threatening NEO to that which NASA submitted to the Congress. "

[Tuesday, March 20, 2007] At the beginning of the International Polar Year, an airborne campaign is now underway and realising results in the extreme north of Europe in support of ESA's Sentinel-1 mission - which amongst other application areas will contribute to ice monitoring.

[Tuesday, March 20, 2007] Based on observations from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard Envisat, scientists have produced the first movies showing the global distribution of the most important greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide and methane – that contribute to global warming.

[Wednesday, March 21, 2007] "I want to testify today about what I believe is a planetary emergency-a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth."

[Wednesday, March 21, 2007] Vast, yet remote; frigid, yet teeming with life; stark and barren, yet serenely beautiful - these are just a few of the contradictions of Earth's polar regions. Within their frozen confines lie secrets.

[Wednesday, March 21, 2007] NASA released on Wednesday never-before-seen images that show the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images.

[Wednesday, March 21, 2007] The joint ESA/UNESCO Open Initiative to conserve natural and cultural World Heritage sites using Earth observation satellites gets additional backing as the IAF joins the growing number of space entities to pledge support to the project.

[Friday, March 23, 2007] Remember me?  The little teddy bear that sent you e-mails from Antarctica back in December?  Well I've been invited to join the NASA Spacebound Mojave expedition that will be taking place beginning next week. 

[Friday, March 23, 2007] NASA scientists and teachers will step back in time as they investigate the Mojave Desert to study the unique geologic formations and the supremely adapted microbes that call it home.

[Friday, March 23, 2007] Searching for clues to the potential for life on Mars, NASA scientists recently explored microbial communities in China's northwest region, and found evidence suggesting that conditions there may be similar to those in certain regions of Mars.

[Saturday, March 24, 2007] Instruments known as solid-state telescopes carried aboard the recently launched THEMIS mission, have delivered their first data on how charged particles in the solar wind interact with Earth's magnetic field to shape the planet's magnetosphere.

[Saturday, March 24, 2007] Maps of the sea surface temperature around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean are being produced daily and are available online in full resolution in near-real time as part of the Medspiration project.

[Monday, March 26, 2007] Aerial views have been released of the HMP Research Station in the high arctic on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada located next to Haughton Crater.

[Tuesday, March 27, 2007] Using measurements of the four ESA's Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent 'plasma' around Earth.

[Thursday, March 29, 2007] With the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite expected to launch in 2011, NASA and USGS have announced their roles and responsibilities in mission development, subsystems procurement, and on-orbit operations.

[Friday, March 30, 2007] International Polar Year expeditions attempting to navigate through the treacherous, ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean will be able to access the latest ESA Envisat satellite radar images of the ice conditions surrounding their vessel.

[Friday, March 30, 2007] Central Europe is not the only place where the past, warm winter has caused record temperatures. Unusually mild temperatures also prevented ice formation in the Arctic, specifically in the region around Spitsbergen.