GOES 13 sees the life and death of hurricane Sandy
This video of satellite imagery from the GOES 13 satellite shows the life of Hurricane Sandy from its development in the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 21, through its track up…
Category Archives: Earth Observation
TRMM Satellite Shows Hurricane Sandy’s eyewall evidence of remarkable vigor
Source NASA – Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite can measure rainfall rates and cloud heights in tropical cyclones, and was used to create an image to look into…
Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
NASA/NOAA– The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and…
Huge Dust Storm over Great Plains Captured by MODIS
In the 1930s the Great Plains became know as the great dust bowl when hugs dust storms were created from a long period of heat an drought. In October 2012…
NOAA provides easy access to historical hurricane tracks
Understanding historical hurricane landfalls is important in preparing for current storms NOAA – Seeing where hurricanes have hit and how often is one of the best ways to bring home…
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
WASHINGTON — For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the…
The Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space Hits 40
WASHINGTON — NASA and the Interior Department Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched July 23,…
New Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research
WASHINGTON — NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)….
