NOAA’s satellites monitor the Earth’s environment in real-time every day, capturing storms, floods, fires, lightning, and other major events that affect us and the world around us. This gallery features our most iconic images from weather events that significantly impacted our lives.
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Satellite Snapshots
The powerful midlatitude #BombCyclone has several meso-vortices spinning within its center, the… -
Satellite Snapshots
Warm, dry conditions have fueled several fires across the western United States over the past week… -
Satellite Snapshots
This image, captured by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument on April 15, 2018, shows… -
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA's GOES East satellite caught a dramatic view of the Bombogenesis 'Bomb Cyclone… -
Satellite Snapshots
This data visualization shows the maximum wind gusts of Hurricane Irma. -
Satellite Snapshots
The Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument captured this image of burn scars from the massive… -
Satellite Snapshots
Twenty-five days after JPSS-1 (NOAA-20) was launched into Earth orbit, the satellite sent back its… -
Satellite Snapshots
The Suomi-NPP satellite captured this image of smoke from California's wildfires being drawn…