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NOAA-20 Shows Nighttime Lights and Hurricane Sally
Day/Night band imagery shows us nighttime views of clouds and lights. This image was captured by NOAA-20 on Sept. 15, 2020.
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How to Safely Stare at the Sun: SOHO, SDO, and GOES-R Instruments
As an agency, NOAA’s science isn’t just limited to Earth and its atmosphere. NOAA’s reach goes…
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NOAA Readies for Addition to its Space Weather Toolkit
NOAA is planning an advanced satellite that will improve forecasts and warnings for potentially damaging solar activity.
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Top 5 Times Solar Activity Affected Earth
Over the course of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle, the star goes through a period of increased and decreased activity…
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What’s the Big Deal about Solar Cycles?
The Sun is Earth’s nearest star—a giant orb of hydrogen and helium about 93 million miles away. To many people, it looks…
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GOES Team honored with Gears of Government Award
Pam Sullivan, Dan Lindsey, Harry Cikanek, Joseph Pica, and Vanessa Griffin used a coordinated approach with innovative techniques to restore the satel
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Six Tropical Systems Swirl Around Two Oceans
September 14, 2020 On the morning of September 14, 2020, NOAA’s GOES-East satellite spied six active tropical systems spanning the Atlantic and…
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120 Years Ago Today, the Great Galveston Hurricane Made Landfall
This Image of the Day shows before-and-after imagery from the Great Galveston hurricane of 1900.
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