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NASA/NOAA | First Images from NOAA's GOES-14 Weather Satellite
Exactly a month ago on June 27, 2009. NASA launched a new and improved weather satellite called GOES-O. Now that GOES-O is safely into its orbit, it has been renamed to GOES-14. Today, we visited NOAA's Satellite Operations Facility in...
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NASA's 3D View Shows Hurricane Matthew's Intensity
Scientists use satellite data to peer into the massive storm – learning how and why it changed throughout its course. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Clare Skelly
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NASA Satellite Captures 3-D View of Hurricane Matthew
NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions' GPM core satellite captured Hurricane Matthew in 3-D as it made landfall on Haiti and as it traveled up to the Florida coast. The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM flew directly...
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NASA/NOAA Watch Hurricane Season 2009 With Fresh Eyes
As the 2009 hurricane season reaches its peak, NASA and NOAA are tracking storms using the GOES series of satellites including the newest GOES-14 spacecraft. On the morning of September 22, TV stations nationwide interviewed NASA GOES...
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NASA/NOAA | Tropical Storm Bonnie Strengthens Over Florida
This video sequence from the GOES-13 satellite using images between July 21st and July 23rd shows Tropical Depression 3 strengthen into tropical storm Bonnie over southern Florida. Tropical storm warnings went into effect for the...
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NASA | Tracking a Superstorm
Hurricane Sandy's near-surface winds are visible in this NASA GEOS-5 global atmosphere model computer simulation that runs from Oct. 26 to Oct. 31, 2012. The model works by dividing Earth's atmosphere into a virtual grid of stacked...
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Eyes in the Sky
Revolutions in satellite capabilities and atmospheric models have resulted in dramatic improvements in hurricane forecasting in the last few decades. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Jefferson Beck (USRA): Lead Producer...
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NASA | Earth Science Week | What are the Consequences ...
Earth's climate system has been remarkably stable over the last 20,000 years or so. Human civilization developed in that time span, and our world's average temperature warmed by about 5 degrees C to the temperature it is today. This fact...
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Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: 'We're American, too, why don't they help?'
More than six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover from the devastation. Thousands of homes and businesses have no electricity and are waiting for insurance payouts. Frontline services are being denied...
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NASA | NOAA's GOES-O: The Future of Hurricane Forecasts
The GOES-O satellite is set for launch in 2009, and will be the latest in a series of satellites that have forecasted the development of severe weather for over 25 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-O will continue...
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NASA | Hurricane Danielle Churns in the Atlantic
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Hurricane Danielle on August 26 at 1555 UTC. At this time, she was a category 2 storm with winds of 90 knots and a...
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Brand New Hubble Observation Teaches Us More About Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous...
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NASA/NOAA | Hurricane Ida viewed by GOES
Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until they heard news of Ida. Fortunately, Ida weakened substantially and was downgraded to a Tropical Storm as she prepared to make landfall. This...
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My journey back to Dominica after the hurricane
This year the Caribbean experienced its most destructive hurricane season in decades. While large countries dominated the headlines, the small island nation of Dominica suffered the worst devastation it has ever seen. Josh...
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When Nature Strikes - Hurricanes
Hurricanes are one of nature's most powerful natural hazards. Jenni Evans of Pennsylvania State University and Jeff Donnelly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are studying how hurricanes form and what factors influence where...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-14 Views of Hurricane Bill
NASA and NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-14, has captured some fascinating views of Hurricane Bill. This is a collection of a few quick movies put together by the GOES-14 team. Find more about these videos at: Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm made landfall as it was meandering slowly southeast at...
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I'll be here until I die': Florida Keys residents on life after Hurricane Irma
A week on from the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, Florida Keys residents are finding strength in one another as they try to piece together their homes and make sense of what happened
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Nate Makes Landfall as a Hurricane on the Northern Gulf Coast
Nate made landfall over the weekend along the northern Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds reported at 85 mph (~140 kph) by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) first at 7:00pm CDT on Saturday October 7th in...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O Launch in HD
NASA/NOAA's GOES-O, the next weather satellite to join the NOAA fleet of satellites, was launched successfully on June 27, 2009 at 6:51pm EST from Cape Canaveral, FL.
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NASA Captures Isaias Twice Along East Coast
After forming into a tropical storm in the eastern Caribbean, Isaias crossed over Hispaniola and back into the western Atlantic heading northwest toward the Bahamas. During this time, Isaias strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane...
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NASA | GPM Gets a Ton of Kilo
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite provided many views of Tropical Cyclone over its very long life. GPM is a satellite co-managed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that has the ability to...
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the GOES-O Launch Pad
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GOES-O launch is targeted for June 26 during a launch...
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Small Sats are the Next Big Thing
NASA is about to launch six new next-generation Earth-observing small satellites — some as small as a loaf of bread. These tiny spacecraft are helping to foster creative and cost-effective approaches to studying our planet. Credit:...