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Top Three Terms to Know for Hurricane Season
Get ready for the coming 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season by familiarizing yourself with these three common hurricane-related…
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Not Just Blowing Smoke: Satellites Play Vital Role in Spotting, Monitoring Fires
Fires, whether naturally occurring or man-made, have substantial impacts on both the landscape and air quality. Fortunately,…
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It's Hard to Get a Cloud-Free Image of Scotland. Here's Why
Why is it so hard to get a cloud-free satellite image of Scotland? The answer is climatological. Eighty-four years ago today, on May 2, 1933,…
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CubeSats to Fly with NOAA's JPSS-1
Tiny satellites known as CubeSats, which can be attached to a larger satellite mission and used for educational, research and…
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Celebrating GOES-6
Thirty-four years ago, on April 28, 1983, NOAA launched the GOES-6 satellite -- the second spacecraft in the second-generation of NOAA's…
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Satellite Snapshots
SUVI Sees a Solar Flare
On Tuesday, April 18, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) on GOES-16 observed a large solar eruption linked to a C5 class solar flare.
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Announcement
Weather Act Addresses Commercial Satellite Data and Hosted Payloads
On April 18, President Trump signed the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017.
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Satellite Snapshots
Sea Ice Concentration
n polar regions, areas of sea ice -- ice atop ocean waters -- not only supports entire ecosystems, it affects Earth’s climate by…
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