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Earth from Orbit
Earth from Orbit: Gravity Waves
NOAA satellites often see patterns of clouds called gravity waves, which appear as ripples.
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Earth from Orbit: Cargo Ship Backup Seen from Space
Imagery from the NOAA-20 satellite showed more than 400 cargo ships backed up in the Red Sea and Bitter Lake due to a ship blocking the Suez Canal.
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Earth from Orbit: Late-Season Snowstorm Breaks Records
Satellite imagery shows a late-season snowstorm that dropped record-breaking amounts of snowfall in Cheyenne, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado.
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Earth from Orbit: Tracking Fires from Space
NOAA satellites monitored numerous fires over the Southern Plains, the majority of which were likely prescribed burns.
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Earth from Orbit: Superior Flow of Clouds
NOAA satellites monitored lake-effect clouds flowing over Lake Superior. Learn more about this phenomenon in this week's Earth from Orbit video.
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Announcement
In a First for NESDIS, JPSS Ground Program Moves its Data to the Cloud
One of the JPSS program’s system of ground stations is located in Norway’s remote Svalbard islands. Antennas at the station here collect data from sat
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Earth from Orbit: Tracking Dust in the Wind
NOAA satellites monitored a large plume of dust from the Sahara Desert as it traveled off the west coast of North Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Feature Story
Beating Back the Tides from Earth Orbit
High-tide floods, also known as nuisance floods, sunny-day floods, and recurrent tidal floods, occur “when tides reach anywhere from 1.75 to 2 feet
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