Satellite Snapshots
The Chesapeake Bay, North America’s largest estuary, provides a vital habitat for local marine life which supports the ecology and…
Satellite Snapshots
The NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument captured this plume of glacial dust streaming into the Gulf of Alaska from the…
Satellite Snapshots
A strong low pressure system approaches the Pacific Northwest in this image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite, taken November 14, 2017…
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NOAA's next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite, JPSS-1, is on the launch pad!
Satellite Snapshots
During October, weak La Niña conditions emerged across most of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. La Niña is likely…
Satellite Snapshots
The NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument captured this image of the central Asia region bordered by Kyrgyzstan to the…
Satellite Snapshots
The Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument took this image of Tropical Storm Rina in the central Atlantic Ocean on November 7, 2017…
Satellite Snapshots
The NOAA GOES-16 satellite snapped this image of Tropical Depression 19 in the Central Atlantic Ocean on November 6, 2017. TD19 is…