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Rising Ocean Temps Raise New Concerns for Coral Reefs
The current marine heat wave is raising new concerns about the potential impact on the fragile coral reefs beneath the ocean’s surface.
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Announcement
NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Ocean Color Instrument Phase A Study
NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Ocean Color Instrument Phase A Study
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Earth from Orbit
Earth from Orbit: Cargo Ship Backup Seen from Space
Imagery from the NOAA-20 satellite showed more than 400 cargo ships backed up in the Red Sea and Bitter Lake due to a ship blocking the Suez Canal.
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Satellite Snapshots
Remembering 2011’s Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Ten years ago today, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench, a…
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Satellite Snapshots
Sargassum Algae Amid the Sargasso Sea
March 08, 2021 NOAA CoastWatch Atlantic OceanViewer, on March 3, 2021, captured imagery of massive amounts of Sargassum algae on the normally crystal…
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Satellite Snapshots
Hurricane Eta Heads toward Central America
Early on November 2, 2020, the GOES-East satellite watched Tropical Storm Eta strengthen into a hurricane over the Caribbean Sea…
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Satellite Snapshots
GOES-East Watches Hurricane Zeta Strike
On October 28, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite viewed Hurricane Zeta make landfall at Cocodrie, Louisiana as a strong Category-2…
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Feature Story
Our Eyes on the Storm: NOAA Has Something New in the Air This Hurricane Season
When Hurricane Hanna, the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, blew through south Texas last month, it was an…
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