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![Ship Tracks off the California Coast](/s3/migrated/20180702_CaliShipTracks.png)
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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![Ship Tracks Off the Coast of the Iberian Peninsula](/s3/2021-06/2179v1_20180116-ShipTracks_0.jpeg)
The ship tracks in this image stretch several hundred miles off the coast of Portugal, and occur in one of the most heavily…
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![GOES West Spies Ship Tracks Over the Eastern Pacific](/s3/migrated/20200611_shiptracks_b.gif)
From its vantage point nearly 22,300 miles up, the GOES West satellite captured this imagery of ship tracks embedded in…
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![Ship Track Plumes Crisscross the Pacific](/s3/migrated/990v1_20120212-ShipTracks.png)
As cargo ships steam across the oceans, the tiny aerosol particles in their exhaust act as cloud nuclei, or seeds around…
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![Jason-3 Satellite to Bolster Hurricane-Intensity Forecasts, Continue Tracking Global Sea-Level Rise](/s3/migrated/sea_level3.jpg)
Jason-3, the latest in a series of satellites that tracks the rate of global sea-level rise and can help NOAA more…
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![Tracking Cyclones: Frequency](/s3/migrated/1413v1_HurricaneTrack-Frequency.png)
Tropical cyclones form in most ocean basins – some more frequently than others. Before the advent of the satellite era,…
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![Clouds](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Clouds form from water or ice that has evaporated from Earth’s surface, or from plants that give off water and oxygen as a…
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![NOAA Plays Critical Role in Record-Breaking Rescue](/s3/migrated/alaska-juris-image1.jpg)
Thanks to NOAA's satellites and an alert NOAA Fisheries manager, 46 crew members of the Alaska Juris made it to safety…
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![Jason-3 Officially Reaches Orbit!](/s3/2021-07/jason3-vertical3_small.jpg)
Jason-3, a U.S.-European satellite mission, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California today at 10:42 a.m. PST…
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![Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Launch of Jason-3](/s3/2021-07/Jason%202%20and%203%20ground%20tracks.jpg)
A year has passed since the Jason-3 satellite rocketed into space. NOAA's Laboratory of Satellite Altimetry provided us…
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![Jason-3 Reddit AMA with NOAA and NASA Scientists!](/s3/2021-07/jason_reddit.jpg)
Do you have questions about the launch of the Jason-3 satellite? Today is your chance to ask actual NOAA and NASA scientists…
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![DSCOVR mission passes major milestones](/s3/migrated/GSFC-2015-303-006_010.jpg)
The upcoming Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a satellite designed to monitor and warn of harmful solar activity…
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![New Satellite Mission Will Improve Hurricane Forecasts and Climate Science, NOAA Expert Says](/s3/migrated/launch-november.jpg)
Eric Leuliette, NOAA's program scientist for Sentinel-6 talks about the agency's planned use of the satellite data.
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![With Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Comes Heightened National Security Concerns](/s3/2021-07/Promo_Image_Arctic_Sea_Ice_20181121.jpeg)
While Arctic sea ice continues to shrink, human activity in the region is only growing. Ice extent, which is monitored by…
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![Upcoming Satellite Mission will Improve Hurricane Forecasts and Climate Science, NOAA Expert Says](/s3/migrated/IMG_0362.jpg)
A new satellite designed to capture detailed measurements of sea-surface height and other ocean features is scheduled to…