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It’s no secret that NOAA satellites play a vital role in generating weather forecasts, but did you know that they’re just as…
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The Aral Sea, split between Uzbekistan to the south and Kazakhstan to the north, used to be one of the largest lakes in the world. Now…
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April 1, 1960, NASA launched the Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), the world’s first successful weather satellite.
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As part of the River Ice and Flooding Initiative, NOAA scientists with the Joint Polar Satellite System are working with…
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Jason-3, a new U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation, has produced its first complete science map of global sea surface
Satellite Snapshots
View of Suomi NPP in orbit introducing what a 1325 LTAN and sun-synchronous orbit means (using planes of reference, animation, and different space…
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NASA's EPIC camera, aboard NOAA's DSCOVR satellite, captured a unique view of this week's solar eclipse. While residents of the Western Pacific looked
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Launched one year ago, on February 11, 2015, DSCOVR – the nation’s first operational satellite in deep space – is now orbiting one million miles away