Satellite Captures Night-time image of California's Springs Fire

Without global coverage, weather (and climate) prediction models will get things wrong. Pictures like the one above, showing Hurricane Sandy, are captured by satellites owned and operated by our federal government. But we may be facing a looming gap ...

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Written Statement of Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D. Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting NOAA Administrator on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's FY ...

Changing to a local television station for weather or flood forecasts is easy, but the work behind predicted weather patterns is far more complicated. NASA scientists working with the University of Iowa's Flood Center know just how difficult it can ...

Under President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget request, NOAA would receive a total budget authority of $3.4 billion , or 1.47 percent more than funding under the current year's continuing resolution. The agency requests $933 million for the National ...

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Nighttime image of southern India and Tropical Cyclone Mahasen (NASA/NOAA) Last Monday, May 13, the Suomi NPP satellite captured a fascinating image of Tropical Cyclone ...

Written by Ball Aerospace Hits: 38 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the National Institute of ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., a unit of Ball Corporation (BLL), has received a contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (:KARI) to build the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS). This is the first contract for ...

View Related Gallery » Earth's internal structure. Andrzej Wojcicki/Corbis Gallery Earth'sBlueMarbleBeauty:Photos View Caption + Western Hemisphere Feb. 24, 2012 -- We at Discovery News are loving the new photos of Earth coming in from VIIRS, the ...

During the winter in the Arctic its night almost all the time, but thanks to the new Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) we no longer have to be in the dark about whats going on with the weather. Here is a ...