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July 3, 2018
Ship tracks embedded in a layer of mid- and high-level clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean on July 2, 2018
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January 16, 2018
The ship tracks in this image stretch several hundred miles off the coast of Portugal, and occur in one of the most heavily trafficked areas for cargo
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June 15, 2020
From its vantage point nearly 22,300 miles up, the GOES West satellite captured this imagery of ship tracks embedded in stratocumulus clouds.
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February 21, 2012
As cargo ships steam across the oceans, the tiny aerosol particles in their exhaust act as cloud nuclei, or seeds around which moisture condenses
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December 17, 2015
Jason-3, the latest in a series of satellites that tracks the rate of global sea-level rise and can help NOAA more accurately forecast the strength of
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August 23, 2013
Tropical cyclones form in most ocean basins – some more frequently than others. Before the advent of the satellite era, hurricane…
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August 24, 2016
Thanks to NOAA's satellites and an alert NOAA Fisheries manager, 46 crew members of the Alaska Juris made it to safety when…