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Photographed from the F-18 pathfinder aircraft, the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft is seen flying over the...
This is a radar image of the central part of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia that shows how the tropical...
On March 17, 2014 the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory flew over the East coast's...
Could the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season break the 10-year “hurricane drought” record? It has...
The fourth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific Ocean season formed on June 25 and by June 26 it was already a...
Over the weekend of Oct. 5 and 6, Typhoon Phanfone's center made landfall just south of Tokyo and passed over the...
At 19:36 UTC (3:36 p.m. EDT) on June 26, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard...
STS-65 Earth observation taken aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, shows Hurricane Emilia in the Eastern...
Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to...
Inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and engineers install one of eight NASA...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis has passed the bend in the crawlerway taking it to Launch Pad 39A,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United Launch Alliance, or ULA, technicians...
Steve Volz, assistant administrator, NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, participates in a prelaunch news...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The crawlerway stretches toward the horizon as viewed from inside the Vehicle Assembly...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Pad 39B, the crawler-transporter moves Space Shuttle Atlantis along the ramp...
Technicians with Orbital ATK remove the first half of the Pegasus payload fairing for NASA’s Cyclone Global...
Photographed from the F-18 pathfinder aircraft, the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft is seen flying over the...
In this animation, TEMPEST-D — a weather-observing satellite the size of a cereal box — captured imagery of...
Inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and engineers install one of eight NASA...
Chris Wood, NOAA Hurricane Hunter pilot, participates in a science briefing on Monday, June 24, 2024, at NASA’s...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This 30-second timed exposure captures the bright lights around the Vehicle Assembly...
Chris Reith, program manager, Advanced Baseline Imager, L3Harris Technologies, participates in a social panel on...
Dakota Smith, satellite analyst and communicator, NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere,...
Technicians with Orbital ATK check assemble the micro satellites deployment module for NASA’s Cyclone Global...