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Satellite Snapshots
Two Views of an Explosive Supercell
Both GOES West and GOES East saw an isolated, or discrete, supercell storm burst over East Texas.
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Earth from Orbit
Earth from Orbit: Gravity Waves
NOAA satellites often see patterns of clouds called gravity waves, which appear as ripples.
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Satellite Snapshots
GOES West Views an Eruption on Sun’s Surface
NOAA’s GOES West saw a solar prominence , a type of eruption, take place on the Sun’s surface on March 30-31, 2021. This event was…
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Feature Story
NOAA Celebrates SARSAT Beacon Awareness Day 2021
Happy SARSAT Beacon Awareness Day (#406Day)! The Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) system is recognized by…
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Satellite Snapshots
Tracking Fires Over the Great Plains
NOAA’s GOES East satellite detected the heat from prescribed burns across Kansas and Oklahoma in this Fire…
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Earth from Orbit
Earth from Orbit: Cargo Ship Backup Seen from Space
Imagery from the NOAA-20 satellite showed more than 400 cargo ships backed up in the Red Sea and Bitter Lake due to a ship blocking the Suez Canal.
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Announcement
NASA Selects Geostationary and Extended Orbits Imager Phase A Contracts
L3Harris Technologies Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Raytheon Company of El Segundo, California, for the GeoXO Phase A Study contract
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Satellite Snapshots
Celebrating 61 Years of Watching Weather from Space
On April 1, 1960, NASA launched the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS-1), the world’s first successful weather satellite.
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