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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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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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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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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, 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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Tropical cyclones form in most ocean basins – some more frequently than others. Before the advent of the satellite era,…
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LEO satellites track storms, winds, and sea ice, helping the National Weather Service Ocean Prediction Center issue warnings…
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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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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, 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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A year has passed since the Jason-3 satellite rocketed into space. NOAA's Laboratory of Satellite Altimetry provided us…
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The U.S. Coast Guard assists a boater in distress at sea. In addition to monitoring Earth’s weather and environment 24/7,…
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The upcoming Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a satellite designed to monitor and warn of harmful solar activity…
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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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Eric Leuliette, NOAA's program scientist for Sentinel-6 talks about the agency's planned use of the satellite data.