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NOAA’s Newest Polar-Orbiting Satellite Celebrates a Milestone
Two years ago today, NOAA announced that its JPSS satellite, NOAA-20, was fully operational.
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Building Omega Block Scorches Southern California
May 27, 2020 On May 27, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-West satellite used its water vapor imagery to spy this donut-shaped low-pressure system spinning off of…
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Smoke (And A Glint) In GOES-East’s Eye During Florida Fires
May 08, 2020 From their first spark to their dying embers, many wildfires can be seen and monitored from space by NOAA’s satellites... and sometimes…
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Hurricanes Toll on Mental Health
Some hurricane damage can’t be captured by photographs; these storms can inflict profound harm to the mental health of people.
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World’s Largest Iceberg Loses Big Chunk, but Keeps Title
May 07, 2020 As the NOAA-20 satellite passed over the Antarctic Peninsula on May 5, 2020, it captured this cloudy image of the world’s largest…
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World’s Largest Iceberg Loses Big Chunk, but Keeps Title
Icebergs A-68A and the smaller A-68C, seen through the clouds by the NOAA-20 satellite…
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Final JPSS-2 Satellite Instrument Passes Readiness Test
The Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument built to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 satellite is ready to ship to the spacecr
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Derecho Sweeps Across the Nation’s Midsection
May 05, 2020 A line of severe thunderstorms, known as aderecho, made an appearance once again this spring—this time, through the lens of GOES-East as…
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