Throughout 2020, NOAA celebrated its golden anniversary as one of the world’s premier science agencies—that’s 50 years of science, service, and stewardship.
As part of this milestone, NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service is looking back at 50 years of images from space. The 50 images we are highlighting are not necessarily the “best of,” though some are certainly stunning. Rather, these images represent the whole spectrum of what Earth-observing satellites provide: life-saving weather information, essential atmospheric and environmental data, critical hurricane updates, near-real-time wildfire detection, and much more.