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Mount St. Helens, Forty Years Later: How NOAA Monitors Volcanoes From Earth Orbit
Monday, May 18, 2020Forty years ago today, iconic Mount St. Helens erupted in southwestern Washington state in the deadliest and most economically…
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NOAA Satellites Provide Detailed Imagery of Michigan Floods
Tuesday, May 26, 2020During a recent major flooding event, scientists unveiled a newly-developed algorithm derived from satellite data to understand…
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NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 Spacecraft
Thursday, June 25, 2020 On behalf of NOAA, NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Ball…
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The Saharan Air Layer: What is it? Why does NOAA track it?
Wednesday, June 24, 2020As we move through the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, you will no doubt hear a lot about the Saharan Air Layer—a mass of…
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Two Orbits, One Mission: NOAA Satellites Work Together to Provide Critical Data for Weather Forecasts
Friday, June 26, 2020 NOAA maintains a fleet of satellites to monitor Earth’s weather, environment and climate. These satellites provide essential…
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Satellite Spots Smoke from Wildfires in South America
On Nov. 5, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite focused on a thick blanket of smoke billowing over forests and wetlands in central South America.
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NOAA-20 Views Tian Shan Mountains in China
On Sept. 21, 2020, the NOAA-20 satellite was able to snap this cloudless True Color image of the snow-covered Tian Shan mountain…
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NOAA's Yana Gevorgyan named new GEO Secretariat Director
Yana Gevorgyan, will be the new director of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat.
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