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On January 15, the cataclysmic eruption of a submerged volcano in the South Pacific devastated the archipelagic nation of Tonga, unleashed tsunamis around the world, and created a sonic boom heard as far away as Alaska.  The blast was captured by a host of sensors located in land, sea, and…

GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image from May 5, 2022. This type of imagery combines data from multiple ABI channels to approximate what the human eye would see from space. Credit: NOAA NOAA released the first imagery from the new GOES-18 weather satellite that launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral, and…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has shared the first images from its recently deployed GOES-18 weather satellite. The stunning captures (below) were obtained by the satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument as it orbited about 22,000 miles above Earth. The ABI observes Earth via sixteen different channels. Each…

by Debra Werner — May 5, 2022 The European Space Agency demonstrated the ability to observe global winds with a Doppler wind lidar on Aeolus, a satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space and launched in 2018. Credit: European Space Agency SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is calling on the public to comment on a series of draft “Climate Science Regional Action Plans” meant to help maintain the USA’s living marine resources. The plans cover the period of 2022 to 2024, according to a recent notice in the Federal Register:…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hold a webinar this week titled “The Connections Between Deep-sea Mining, the Monuments and Fisheries.” The webinar will take place Thursday, April 21, 2022 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm US Central Time. According to the webinar summary: “The need for metals, particularly for…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a “Share the Shore & Sea Art” contest for K-12 students from the Pacific islands. The photos and art should feature whales, dolphins, sea turtles, Hawaiian monk seals or corals and must adhere to US laws regarding how close people are…

NOAA’s GOES-T is the third satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series, the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated weather-observing and environmental-monitoring system. The GOES-R Series provides advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements, real-time mapping of lightning activity, and monitoring of space weather. Credit: NOAA On March 14, 2022, GOES-T executed…

Home News A coronal mass ejection bursts out of the sun's outermost atmosphere (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO) Earth could be hit by a series of mild geomagnetic storms on Monday and Tuesday (March 14 and 15) after a moderate solar flare blasted out of the sun's atmosphere several days ago, according…