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![Smoke from Australian Wildfires Continues to Drift over South America](/s3/migrated/20200117_SouthAmerica.png)
On Jan. 16, 2020, the NOAA-20 satellite snapped this image of the southern tip of South America, where smoke from the…
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![FIRST INSTRUMENT FOR JPSS-2 SATELLITE ARRIVES FOR INTEGRATION & TEST](/s3/2021-09/g18_09328-004-006.jpg)
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the first instrument for NOAA’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite…
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![The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption, a Multi-Hazard Event](/s3/2022-01/Tonga_EfO_still_clean.png)
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, located in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, has erupted three times in less than thirty days.…
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![50 Years After Hurricane Camille, NOAA Satellites Keep U.S. Weather-Ready](/s3/migrated/Camille-damage.jpg)
In the late evening hours of August 17, 1969, a catastrophic storm named Hurricane Camille slammed into the Gulf Coast. A…
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![Extreme Heat and Severe Weather Plague Parts of North America](/s3/2023-06/2023_06_30_Extreme_Heat_and_Severe_Weather.png)
A dangerous heat wave that has been affecting more than 50 million people across the southern U.S. and Mexico expanded its…
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![Earth from Orbit: Late-Season Snowstorm Breaks Records](/s3/2021-07/snowstorm169.png)
Satellite imagery shows a late-season snowstorm that dropped record-breaking amounts of snowfall in Cheyenne, Wyoming and…
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![GOES-R "Brain" and "Body" Are Mated, On Track for Launch](/s3/migrated/goes-r-mate.jpg)
The GOES-R satellite System Module and Core Module subassemblies were successfully mated and now form the GOES-R spacecraft.
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![NOAA: Next Generation Geostationary Satellite Instruments Delivered](/s3/migrated/goes_r_instrument_delivered.jpg)
Four of the six instruments that will fly on the GOES-R satellite ere delivered to Lockheed Martin in Denver for integration…
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![Have GOES-R Questions? Live Chat with our Experts](/s3/2021-06/GOES-R_Reddit-1.jpeg)
Want to know more about GOES-R's mission, the satellite, the launch, or the science behind it all? Join our Reddit…
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![NOAA's JPSS-2 Satellite Instruments Ready for Delivery to the Spacecraft](/s3/migrated/iem_mech_install_wide_20200622_72dpi_1.jpg)
In four different U.S. cities are four shipping containers, each one carrying an instrument that will travel to space to…
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![NOAA-20 Zooms In on Smoke from Fires in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar](/s3/migrated/20200226CambodiaFires.png)
NOAA-20 satellite observed smoke plumes from fires burning in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.
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![Tell Your Special Someone They Are Your Ultimate Observation with NESDIS 2024 Valentine’s Day Cards](/s3/2024-02/Vday_promo_2024-_FINAL.png)
Whether you are celebrating a love that is light years old or launching a new romance, our unique and heartwarming satellite…
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![GeoXO Timeline](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
NOAA assessed user needs and studied a variety of potential observational capabilities for the GeoXO system. These analyses…
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![Hurricane Kay Brings Rain to the Southwest While Wildfires Rage to the North](/s3/2022-09/2022_09_16_HurricanesFiresRainOhMy_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
NOAA satellites have tracked a lot of activity across western North America this month. From wildfires, to a hurricane, to…
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![Earth from Orbit: Alaska Ablaze](/s3/2022-06/2022_06_30_AlaskaAblaze_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
June 2022 saw a record number of fires burning across Alaska, which have compromised air quality and stretched firefighting…