Stunning NASA Image Captures Tropical Storm Ida at It Passes Over the Southern U.S.
In this image, captured in the early morning hours of Monday, Aug. 30, Tropical Storm Ida is seen moving inland over portions of southeastern Louisiana,…
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It’s Official: NOAA Declares July 2021 Earth’s Hottest Month on Record
July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released by NOAA’s National Centers for…
Large Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” Measured – Area of Low to No Oxygen That Can Kill Fish and Marine Life
River discharge and nutrient loads contribute to size. Recently, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to…
Advanced New Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users. After six months of check-out and calibration…
Robotic Navigation Tech – That Helped NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars – Will Explore the Deep Ocean
Terrain-relative navigation helped Perseverance land – and Ingenuity fly – autonomously on Mars. Now it’s time to test a similar system while exploring another frontier….
NOAA Climate Report Shows Earth Had Its Coolest February on Record Since 2014
But in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter season ranked among the top-10 warmest. February 2021 was the planet’s coolest February in seven years due to…
NOAA Scientists: 2020 Was Earth’s 2nd-Hottest Year on Record, Just Behind 2016
It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA…
Incredible Satellite View of the Moon’s Shadow Crossing the Surface of Earth During the Total Solar Eclipse
The first and only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurred on December 14, with the path of totality stretching from the equatorial Pacific to the…
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Iota Sets Late-Season Records
Less than two weeks after being hit by category 4 Hurricane Eta, several Central American countries braced for the arrival of category 5 Hurricane Iota….
Solar Cycle 25 Has Begun. Experts From NASA and NOAA Explain What It Means
Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis…
Burn Scars from Elkhorn Fire in California Revealed in Devastating NOAA-NASA Satellite Images
Imagery from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA/NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite highlights the burn scars from the Elkhorn Fire in northern California on September 1, 2020….
NASA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Captures Striking Images of California Wildfires at Night
Striking images of the California wildfires are seen in these nighttime satellite images taken by the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite on Aug. 20, 2020. At…
Great, Warm Lakes – Heat Records in Jeopardy
When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is that warm at…
Massive Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket Analyzed by NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP Satellite
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but the current dust storm has been quite expansive and NASA…
63 Mile Smoke Trail From Bighorn Fire Captured by NOAA/NASA Satellite
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22, 2020, showing clouds of smoke pouring off this fire that is plaguing…
May 2020 Had the Highest Monthly Atmospheric CO2 Reading Ever Recorded
Rise of carbon dioxide unabated: Seasonal peak reaches 417 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory reached…
Breakthrough Using Carbon-14 to Estimate National Emissions of Carbon Dioxide From Fossil Fuels
Tracking Fossil Fuel Emissions With Carbon-14 Researchers from NOAA and the University of Colorado have devised a breakthrough method for estimating national emissions of carbon…
Cosmic Bursts of Radio Static From Solar Storms Could Scramble Whales’ Navigational Sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio static. When our sun belches out a hot stream of charged…