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![A Decade of Global Sea Level Measurements: Jason-2 Marks Tenth Year in Orbit](/s3/migrated/OSTM-past-pres-future41.jpg)
Jason-2, the oceanography satellite that has helped us map the ocean floor and measure global sea level rise, marks its…
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![5 Questions for Kevin Fryar](/s3/2021-06/Kevin%20Fryar%20GOES-R%20Chief%20of%20Staff%202021.02.19.png)
NOAA's Kevin Fryar, chief of staff at GOES-R, discusses being an African-American in the sciences and shares advice for…
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![Revolutionizing Weather Forecasting: How LEO Satellites Have Changed the Game](/s3/2023-06/weather-forecast-leo-sats.jpg)
Radiance data from low Earth orbit satellites is crucial for producing accurate and timely short-range weather forecasts.
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![GOES East Sees Storms Firing Up Over Upper Midwest](/s3/migrated/20190719-us.jpg)
NOAA’s GOES East satellite watched as storms began firing up over the Upper Midwest on Friday, July 19, 2019. While there’s…
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![GOES East Celebrates the Autumnal Equinox](/s3/migrated/20190923-autumnalequinox.jpg)
In 2019, the official start of fall—the Autumnal Equinox—was Monday, Sept. 23 at 3:50 a.m. EDT.
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![The Carr and Ferguson Fires Spread Smoke Across California](/s3/migrated/20180727-CAfires.png)
lumes of hazy smoke stretch across California and southern Oregon, as large wildfires continue to burn in the Western U.S.…
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![Wildfires and Smoky Skies Continue in Western North America](/s3/migrated/20180820-BritishColumbiaFires.png)
Wildfire smoke continues to cover large portions of the Western U.S. and Canada this week, as above-normal temperatures and…
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![Mid-Latitude Cyclone on the First Day of Summer](/s3/migrated/20180622-SolsticeStorms.png)
On the first day of astronomical summer , the GOES East satellite captured this image of a large storm system moving across…
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![Wildfires Rage Along the Western Gulf of Mexico](/s3/migrated/20190514-Mexicofires.jpg)
Mexico’s Megalópolis Environmental Commission urges residents to stay indoors as smoke inundates Mexico’s densely populated…
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![NOAA’s GOES-16 Sees the Autumnal Equinox](/s3/migrated/SpringToFallEquinox2020.gif)
It’s officially autumn in the Northern Hemisphere—the season when days get shorter as that half of the world heads toward…
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![Fires Ignite Near Oil Tank Facility On Lake Maracaibo](/s3/migrated/20200425-Venezuela2_0.gif)
On the morning of Saturday, April 25, 2020, the GOES-East satellite spied dark, dense smoke billowing from the city of…
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![Derecho Sweeps Across the Nation’s Midsection](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
May 05, 2020 A line of severe thunderstorms, known as aderecho, made an appearance once again this spring—this time, through…
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![Smoke (And A Glint) In GOES-East’s Eye During Florida Fires](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
May 08, 2020 From their first spark to their dying embers, many wildfires can be seen and monitored from space by NOAA’s…
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![Air Over Canada’s Surface Is As Cold As Clouds](/s3/migrated/G16_sector_can_band13_36fr_20210208-1136.gif)
As a dip in the polar vortex continues to bring bitter temperatures to North America, the air over the northern reaches of…
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![NOAA Satellite GOES with the Floe](/s3/migrated/20210309000000_labradorseaice2_0.gif)
On March 9, 2021, GOES East used its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) to focus in on sea ice (bluish-white swirls) flowing in…