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This graphic shows a global positioning system satellite beaming a signal through Earth's atmosphere. The navigation satellite is on the far left of the image and has an orange-colored signal line extending in a straight line to the right. A light blue box with the words GPS Satellite is in the upper left corner. In the lower right corner of the image is Earth colored in blue and green. The image background is colored black.

Weather Ballooning from Space

A NASA-funded project is creating a cloud-based radio occultation data archive for atmospheric researchers.

Feature Article

Sep 18, 2023

Dr. Steven Miller

Dr. Steven D. Miller

Imagery of Earth at night provide unique opportunities for research. Dr. Miller uses these data in his studies of Earth’s nocturnal environment.

Data User Story

Apr 13, 2021

A Japanese home drifts in the Pacific Ocean a few days after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

Warnings from the Ionosphere

GPS may be able to pace tsunamis.

Feature Article

Dec 28, 2020

This photograph shows a large lenticular cloud hovering over part of Torres del Paine National Park, in Chile’s Patagonia region.

The Case of the Missing Waves

Earth’s atmosphere works in mysterious ways.

Feature Article

Dec 28, 2020

Examples of full disk hemispheric imagery available in NASA Worldview from GOES-West

Now Available in NASA Worldview: Earth Every 10 Minutes

The addition of GOES-East, GOES-West, and Himawari-8 geostationary imagery updated every 10 minutes lets you view Earth as it is “right now.”

Feature Article

Nov 4, 2020

The NSCAT image above shows Typhoon Violet near Japan in 1996.

Reckoning with Winds

NSCAT wind vectors and SSM/I precipitable water color images reveal the physics in action for typhoons.

Feature Article

Jul 28, 2020

A girl stands next to a tree covered in webs in a heavily flooded area in Sindh, Pakistan.

A Kink in the Jet Stream

Extreme weather events thousands of miles apart may be linked.

Feature Article

Jul 21, 2020

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