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Tonight will be the biggest and brightest full moon, colloquially called a "supermoon," of 2020.
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April 06, 2020 Happy SARSAT Beacon Awareness Day! The Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) system is recognized by emergency…
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NOAA-20 captured this imagery of two tropical cyclones that developed in the Southern Hemisphere. The…
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April 02, 2020 On March 29, 2020, the NOAA-20 satellite viewed the snowpack on top of the Hindu Kush Himalayas. During this time of the year, when…
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April 01, 2020 On April 1, 1960, 10 years before NOAA was established, NASA launched the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), which…
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020On April 1, 1960, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched TIROS-1, the world’s first successful…
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Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the First Weather Satellite Launch web map in new window On April 1, 1960, the first operational weather satellite,…
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The Suomi-NPP satellite captured imagery of fires dotting Kansas as it passed overhead.