In the Scan

GoGeomatics is a website that supports the geomatics community across Canada and beyond. At the Ottawa GoGeomatics Meetup this past November, founder and CEO Jonathan Murphy led a discussion on what will be the first-ever GoGeomatics Conference in 2019.

This is from a recent article.

GoGeomatics 2019 Conference Being Planned

In Canada we are lucky to have some excellent geomatics events, and many interesting regional and tech specific events on the calendar each year. Check out our Events Calendar for some of them (or to add your own event).

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At minus 100 degrees Celsius, it is certainly cold enough for ice to form in the Mars atmosphere, but these scientists relied on NASA’s Phoenix lidar to finally answer the question.

Front Range Virga – No Lidar – Photo by Tom Yulsman

From an article in Discover by Tom Yulsman.

First, what about those clouds in the image above? If you live somewhere with wide open vistas, you’ve probably seen the phenomenon yourself: darkish streaks appearing to hang from a cloud deck.

This is called “virga” — precipitation falling from the clouds but mostly not reaching the ground. I’ve seen virga many times before, but usually in summer. This is when temperatures are high and humidity near the surface can be relatively low, causing shafts of rain falling from clouds to evaporate before the drops reach the ground.

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