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At 2:32 am EDT on Sept 11, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2, aboard the GCOM-W1 satellite, captured this image of Hurricane Florence. This image shows a double eyewall, an outer circle wrapped around an inner circle. Image credit: NOAA/UWM-SSEC-CIMSS/William Straka III
JPSS Satellites show intense convection, gravity waves as Florence moves west toward Carolinas
Satellite images of Hurricane Florence captured early Tuesday showed the storm developing a second, outer eyewall. By midday Tuesday, that outer eyewa
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NOAA-20 IS OPERATIONAL
DATA FROM SATELLITE WILL IMPROVE WEATHER AND HAZARD FORECASTS OUT TO 7 DAYS
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Beginning in late March, the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites detected several fires burning in Russia's far eastern Amur Province.
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NOAA-20 CAPTURES DAY-NIGHT BAND IMAGES OF MOST RECENT POWER OUTAGE IN PUERTO RICO
At approximately 11:04 am (EDT) on April 18, an excavator involved in an effort to remove a tower toppled by Hurricane Maria got too close to a power
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This image shows the number of passes (red and black lines) Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 will make each day. The white strip refers to the width of area (or swatch) each satellite will "see" on each pass.
TWO SATELLITES, ONE ORBIT, MANY BENEFITS
Shortly after NOAA-20 (formerly JPSS-1) launched into space on November 18, 2017, it joined its predecessor—the Suomi NPP satellite—in the same polar
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From Launch to Operational: An Overview OF NOAA-20'S Checkout Phase
Approximately one hour after liftoff, when JPSS-1 separated from the upper stage of the Delta II launch vehicle and its solar array deployed, the laun
Satellite Snapshots
Composite illustration a satellite over Earth with areas of text.
JPSS-1: System Overview
This data visualization shows the maximum wind gusts from Hurricane Irma from September 7 to September 10, 2017. Note how the strongest wind gusts…
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New Images from NOAA-20 Show Dramatic Change in Temperatures over North America
NOAA-20 captured these two images of North America five days apart (January 11, 2018 and January 16, 2018). Note the contrast in the surface temperatu