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Topic: Earth observations

Photo showing NOAA Affiliates Dr. Elizabeth Steffen (left) and Marine Tech Elizabeth Ricci (right) deploy a Deep Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer (SOLO) Argo float from the R/V Kaʻimikai-O-Kanaloa in 2018.

Biden-Harris Administration invests $2.7 million to improve ocean observations with new robotic floats through Investing in America agenda

April 10, 2024

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Photo showing NOAA Affiliates Dr. Elizabeth Steffen (left) and Marine Tech Elizabeth Ricci (right) deploy a Deep Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer (SOLO) Argo float from the R/V Kaʻimikai-O-Kanaloa in 2018.

Earth's Northern Hemisphere, seen from NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, on Feb. 9, 2019.

Earth from orbit: Every day is Earth Day for NOAA Satellites

April 22, 2021

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Earth's Northern Hemisphere, seen from NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, on Feb. 9, 2019.

NOAA's Yana Gevorgyan named new GEO Secretariat Director

November 5, 2020

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Tapping into data from the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite’s Day/Night Band, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, and the Colorado School of Mines examined the difference in illumination of urban and suburban lights between February and March, 2020. By doing so, the scientists were able to detect areas of dimming (blue), and in some cases brightening (red), of

See: Satellite detects changes in nighttime lights in NYC Metro area

May 11, 2020

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Tapping into data from the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite’s Day/Night Band, NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, and the Colorado School of Mines examined the difference in illumination of urban and suburban lights between February and March, 2020. By doing so, the scientists were able to detect areas of dimming (blue), and in some cases brightening (red), of

The crew of NOAA Ship Fairweather crew lower a launch into Puget Sound, Washington, for Hydrographic Systems Readiness Review testing. Since 2015, scientists have been gathering data on the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system, a 746-mile long strike-slip fault line that extends from offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada, to the Fairweather Range of southeast Alaska. The team has gathered high resolution bathymetric data through multibeam sonar across 5,792 square miles of the ocean bottom

Scientists complete mission to map fast-moving fault off Alaska

August 7, 2018

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The crew of NOAA Ship Fairweather crew lower a launch into Puget Sound, Washington, for Hydrographic Systems Readiness Review testing. Since 2015, scientists have been gathering data on the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system, a 746-mile long strike-slip fault line that extends from offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada, to the Fairweather Range of southeast Alaska. The team has gathered high resolution bathymetric data through multibeam sonar across 5,792 square miles of the ocean bottom

Photograph taken May 15, 2018, 11:05 am HST, from the Jaggar Museum at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Here we see an ash plume rising from the Kiluea Volcano Overlook Crater. Ash falling from the plume can be seen just to the right side (and below) the plume.

Kilauea eruptions: The way the wind blows, so go the gas and the ash

May 23, 2018

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Photograph taken May 15, 2018, 11:05 am HST, from the Jaggar Museum at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Here we see an ash plume rising from the Kiluea Volcano Overlook Crater. Ash falling from the plume can be seen just to the right side (and below) the plume.

This aircraft at the South Pole Observatory was the final flight out for scientists leaving ahead of winter in Antarctica. February 16, 2018.

Featured photo: Last call at the South Pole, for now

February 23, 2018

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This aircraft at the South Pole Observatory was the final flight out for scientists leaving ahead of winter in Antarctica. February 16, 2018.

NOAA citizen scientists at work in the field.

Ever dream of becoming a scientist? Dream no more.

April 12, 2017

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Citizen Science Day

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NOAA citizen scientists at work in the field.

NOAA's GOES-R satellite, a revolutionary next-generation geostationary weather satellite, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday night.

GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting

November 19, 2016

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NOAA's GOES-R satellite, a revolutionary next-generation geostationary weather satellite, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday night.

Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the NOAA Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

Monitoring our changing world from land, sea and sky

January 25, 2016

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Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the NOAA Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

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