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The NOAA-20 satellite snapped this beautiful photo of marine stratocumulus clouds (MSCs) off the western coast of South America on…
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In 2004, the Atlantic had one of its most active and destructive hurricane seasons on record. These storms produced more than $61 billion in damages
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Clear skies over Australia on July 16, 2019, gave the NOAA-20 polar-orbiting satellite an unobstructed view of smoke plumes from…
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Upper level winds from thunderstorms over the Bay of Bengal blew anvil clouds to the southwest, forming an eye-catching cirrus cloud…
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A spiraling cloud pattern, known as a von Kármán vortex, formed off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on May 13, 2019.
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In the late 1950s, a scientist named Lewis Kaplan divined a groundbreaking way to calculate temperature in the atmosphere for weather forecasting.
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Rain forests may contain more than half the Earth’s plant and animal species, but in terms of diversity, coral reefs are…
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful operational rocket, launched the communications satellite Arabsat-6A into orbit.
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