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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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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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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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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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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 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…
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January 17, 2016
Jason-3, a U.S.-European satellite mission, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California today at 10:42 a.m. PST aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
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July 5, 2018
A year has passed since the Jason-3 satellite rocketed into space. NOAA's Laboratory of Satellite Altimetry provided us a report on those 365 days.
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January 5, 2016
Do you have questions about the launch of the Jason-3 satellite? Today is your chance to ask actual NOAA and NASA scientists about the satellite and i
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November 20, 2014
The upcoming Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a satellite designed to monitor and warn of harmful solar activity that could impact Earth, rece
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November 21, 2020
Eric Leuliette, NOAA's program scientist for Sentinel-6 talks about the agency's planned use of the satellite data.
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November 26, 2018
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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August 14, 2020
A new satellite designed to capture detailed measurements of sea-surface height and other ocean features is scheduled to…