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Do Contrails Affect Conditions on the Surface?
Contrails, or "condensation trails"—the line-shaped clouds often seen behind aircraft—can increase the amount of clouds in the atmosphere.
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Feature Story
DSCOVR Captures an EPIC Year
A year after returning it's first image, NASA's EPIC camera, aboard NOAA's DSCOVR satellite, shows us an entire year from one million miles away.
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Feature Story
The Dirt on Atmospheric Dust
Even though satellites can detect dust in the atmosphere, that does not mean it's easy for scientists to detect it in satellite imagery.
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Feature Story
GOES-3: The Oldest Operating Satellite takes its Curtain Call
With an operational life spanning five different decades and six different U.S. presidents, GOES-3 has seen it all. From…
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Satellite Snapshots
A Big Bloom in the Barents Sea
Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument captured this true color image of a colorful blue-green phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea on July 7,…
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Announcement
Industry Day on NOAA Commercial Weather Data Pilot
On July 7, NOAA/NESDIS hosted an industry day to discuss the Request for Quotation (RFQ) in support of the FY 2016 Commercial Weather Data Pilot. NESDIS officials fielded questions and comments on the draft solicitation prior to its finalization and…
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Satellite Snapshots
Super Typhoon Nepartak
The VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this color-enhanced infrared image of Super Typhoon Nepartak…
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Satellite Snapshots
Barents Sea Displays Big Bloom
Located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, the Barents Sea is rather shallow, with an average depth of 230 meters (750 feet)…
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