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
On May 18, 2020, the Himawari-8 satellite caught this imagery of Tropical Cyclone Amphan, heading… -
Satellite Snapshots
The first typhoon of 2020 has formed in the western Pacific Ocean and is expected to make landfall… -
Satellite Snapshots
Some hurricane damage can’t be captured by photographs; these storms can inflict profound harm to… -
Satellite Snapshots
On the morning of Saturday, April 25, 2020, the GOES-East satellite spied dark, dense smoke… -
Satellite Snapshots
The Suomi-NPP satellite captured imagery of fires dotting Kansas as it passed overhead. -
Satellite Snapshots
On March 24, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite zoomed in on wispy smoke plumes from fires burning in… -
Satellite Snapshots
On March 8, 2020, the GOES-East satellite viewed the Washington, D.C. metro area as haziness… -
Satellite Snapshots
NOAA-20 satellite observed smoke plumes from fires burning in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.