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NOAA SciJinks Valentines


Print these NOAA SciJinks Valentine's Day cards and give them to family and friends!

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Valentine card with the text, My love for you is electric!. This card also features an illustration of two clouds shocking each other with lightning. The top quarter of the image is filled with dark gray-purple storm clouds. Below these storm clouds are two rounder light-gray clouds with gentle smiling faces looking at each other. They are outlined in a pale yellow color and are shocking each other with a small white lightning squiggle. Above the little lightning is a pink heart. The text appears underneath these two clouds. The background of this illustration is a baby blue color.

My love for you is electric!

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series of weather satellites monitor lightning on Earth to help warn us of dangerous weather conditions. GOES-R's lightning mapper tracks lightning in the sky even through dense, dark clouds.

Learn more about lightning!

Valentine card with the text, Even if we're apart, you still have all of my heart!. An illustration of a GOES-R series weather satellite orbits Earth. A big red heart sits in between the satellite and Earth. The text is white, while Earth is blue, green, and white. The background is a mute blue and is speckled with white dots resembling distant stars.

Even if we're far apart, you still have all of my heart!

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series of weather satellites, operated by NOAA, orbit 22,000 miles above Earth. From up there, they can do a lot to help us down here. The GOES-R Satellites may have a long distance relationship with Earth, but they work together perfectly!

Learn more about GOES-R weather satellites!

Valentine card with the text, My heart is burning for you!. Below this text is an illustration of a smiling sun with a heart-shaped solar flare. The sun has a bright yellow interior and darker yellow rays extend outward. The heart-shaped solar flare is colored bright orange. The background of the illustration is blue with white speckles dotting the page.

My heart is burning for you!

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series of weather satellites watch the sun for big bursts of energy, which send waves of radiation toward Earth that can damage satellites and affect power grids. This kind of weather created by the sun is called space weather.

Learn more about space weather!

Valentine card with the text, There is no one exactly like you! and an illustration of a smiling white snowflake surrounded by pink hearts, one larger than the other two, and two other different snowflakes. The background of the illustration is blue with white speckles dotting the page.

There is no one exactly like you!

How likely is it for two snowflakes to experience the same exact conditions all the way down to the microscopic level? Astronomically unlikely! That's why you will never find two identical flakes. Each snowflake is unique, just like you!

Learn more about snowflakes!

Valentine card with the text, You bring sunshine even on the cloudiest day. This illustration also shows the smiling sun sun behind a cloud with sunlight shining through a heart-shaped opening in the cloud. Three red hearts fly above the cloud and the sunlight. The sun's rays are outlined in and accentuated with a bright yellow color. The background of this illustration is a baby blue.

You bring sunshine even on the cloudiest day.

Clouds are made up of water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky. We can see them from the ground, of course, but the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites—R Series of weather satellites watch clouds from space, too. These satellites help detect changes in cloud-top features, helping scientists assess the potential size and severity of a storm even before it reaches its peak.

Learn more about clouds!

Valentine card with the text, You bring color to my world! and an illustration of a rainbow below a cloud with hearts around it. The background of the card is a baby blue. A thin gray cloud flies above the text in the top-most quarter of the image. Above it, there are three red hearts. Extending from the cloud at a slight angle is a striped rainbow. The rainbow's colors begin with red at the right-most stripe and end with violet.

You bring color to my world!

A rainbow is caused by sunlight and atmospheric conditions. Light enters a water droplet, slowing down and bending as it goes from air to denser water. The light reflects off the inside of the droplet, separating into its component wavelengths – or colors. When light exits the droplet, it makes a rainbow!

Learn more about rainbows!