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Jul 14, 2021
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Today is the 244th day of the year here on Earth. On Venus, one day (time it takes to complete one rotation on its axis) is 243 Earth days. Can you imagine if today was the start of just the second day of the year? Talk about a long day! | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Today is the 244th day of the year here on Earth. On Venus, one day …
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This is Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. In May of 2023, 63 new moons were announced for Saturn, bringing its total up to 146 moons! Enceladus sets itself apart by being Saturn's brightest moon due to its icy surface! Read more about Enceladus here: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/enceladus-saturns-moon/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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This is Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. In May of 2023, 63 new mo…
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Irma is still a very powerful storm. Stay up to date with the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) and NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center! This zoomed in view of Irma is from NOAA's new GOES-16 satellite. | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Irma is still a very powerful storm. Stay up to date with the U.S. Natio…
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Hurricane Ida is a force of nature as seen here in this satellite imagery on SOS Explorer. Ida rapidly progressed from a "potential for tropical cyclone development" in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on August 23rd to a Category 1 hurricane late on the 27th over Cuba, intensifying to a Category 4 just before making landfall in Louisiana on the 29th. The peak intensity recorded for Ida reached 150 mph winds with a low pressure of 930 mbar. Follow the NWS New Orleans Twitter for more information a
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Hurricane Ida is a force of nature as seen here in this satellite imagery …
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Major continental river systems and drainages show up clearly in this topography dataset for SOS. The longest rivers in the world on each continent are: Africa - Nile - 4,132 miles (6,650 km) South America - Amazon 4,000 miles (6,437 km) Asia - Yangtze - 3,915 miles(6,300 km) North America - Missouri - 2,540 miles (4,088 km) Australia - Murray - 1,558 miles (2,508 km) Europe - Volga - 2,266 miles (3,645) | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Major continental river systems and drainages show up clearly in this t…
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Valentine, I'd move mountains for you! Happy Valentine's Day! Read more about the plate tectonic movement you see here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/plate-movement-200-million-years-ago-to-today/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Valentine, I'd move mountains for you! Happy Valentine's Day! Rea…
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Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web and are crucial players in the Earth's carbon cycle. The large phytoplankton (red, yellow) have fastest growth rates and dominate where there are lots of nutrients to nourish them at high latitudes and near the equator where nutrient-rich water upwells from the deep ocean. On the other hand, the small phytoplankton (green, blue) are more competitive where nutrients are very low. Read more about this model here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/phyto
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Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web and are crucial p…
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On Monday Cyclone Amphan became the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the Bay of Bengal. It weakend to the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane before making landfall in India on Wednesday. Storm surge and flooding are a major concern for those living in the area, prompting large evacuations. This view shows cloud cover as well as precipitation. You can read more about the dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/clouds-with-precipitation-real-time/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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On Monday Cyclone Amphan became the strongest cyclone eve…
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Want to go stargazing? Check out this dataset first! What you are looking at is a map of light pollution. Light pollution in urban centers creates a sky glow that can blot out the stars. The brighter the area in this map the harder it is to see stars and constellations in the night sky. Yellow indicates places where the winter Milky Way (fainter than its summer counterpart) cannot be observed and orange indicates artificial brightness that masks the summer Milky Way as well. It’s estimated that
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Want to go stargazing? Check out this dataset first! What you are lo…
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Traveling soon? This dataset shows commercial air traffic over a 24 hour period. Notice how the traffic changes depending on the time of day. Read more about the dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=44 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Traveling soon? This dataset shows commercial air traffic over a 24 ho…
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On this day seven years ago, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck near the Samoan Islands triggering a large tsunami. As part of our Tsunami Historical Series from the US NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, you can now watch it on SOS. Read more here: http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=625 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Winter is coming! This video of sea ice and snow cover shows just how much snow North America has gotten since October. Do you have snow in your area? Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/snow-and-ice-real-time/ NOAA Education CIRES Education & Outreach Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Winter is coming! This video of sea ice and snow cover shows just ho…
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In honor of the first day of spring (today in the Northern hemisphere!), check out this bird migration dataset. Each dot represents a different bird species. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/bird-migration-patterns-western-hemisphere/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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In honor of the first day of spring (today in the Northern hemisphere…
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The world's most popular shipping routes are clear to see in this dataset of ship traffic over the course of a year from ships that voluntarily provide weather observations (only about 10% of all commercial ships). After being stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week blocking all traffic, the ship Ever Given has been freed. Look at how much traffic there typically is through there! Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/shipping-routes-with-labels-one-year/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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The world's most popular shipping routes are clear to see in this data…
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Approximately 50% of oxygen comes from the ocean, where algae not only release oxygen during photosynthesis, but also serve as the base of most oceanic food webs. In this imagery, areas of the ocean with lower amounts of surface chlorophyll are colored blue, areas with higher concentrations are colored green to yellow. The large patches of gray are areas where the satellite cannot measure the ocean surface due to cloud cover. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=461 | NOA
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Approximately 50% of oxygen comes from the ocean, where alga…
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Our newest SOS dataset comes from Global Forest Watch and shows the extent of forests on earth and also shows forest gain and loss. Check it out! http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=615 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Our newest SOS dataset comes from Global Forest Watch and sho…
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On this day 10 years ago, Hurricane Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico and began strengthening into a Category 5 hurricane. In the 10 years since this devastating hurricane, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has continually worked to improve forecasts and help communities become more resilient. You can read more here: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/advisories/080415-media-resources-10-years-later-2005-hurricane-season.html | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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On this day 10 years ago, Hurricane Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexic…
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On this day 57 years ago, the largest earthquake ever recorded by instruments struck southern Chile with a magnitude we now know to be at least 9.5. This earthquake generated a tsunami that traveled through every ocean on earth, though large, dangerous waves only impacted the coastlines around the Pacific Ocean. Read more about this event and the dataset from the US NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center here: https://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=613 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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On this day 57 years ago, the largest earthquake ever recorded …
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Wrapping up 2016 with a yearlong look at snow and ice cover! http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=193 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Wrapping up 2016 with a yearlong look at snow and ice cover! http://…
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Earth Day is Wednesday and it is 50 this year! Check out all the things NOAA has done and is doing for Earth Day: https://www.noaa.gov/education/stories/earth-day-at-50-look-at-past-present-and-future | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Earth Day is Wednesday and it is 50 this year! Check out all the things …
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In a recent Wired article entitled, "The Long-Lost Tale of an 18th-Century Tsunami, as Told by Trees" new evidence for the Cascadia tsunami of 1700 is brought to light by examining tree rings on the U.S. Pacific coast. This SOS dataset shows the 1700 Cascadia tsunami modeled by the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center RIFT model. Earthquakes like this one (magnitude 8 or 9) along the Juan de Fuca plate on the coast of Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia are thought to happen ever
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In a recent Wired article entitled, "The Long-Lost Tale of an 18th-Ce…
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June is National Ocean Month! To kick it off, here is a look at sea surface temperatures so far in 2020. Sea surface temperature, much like the atmosphere’s temperature, is constantly changing. Water warms up and cools down at a slower rate than air, so diurnal variations (heating during the day and cooling during the night) seen in the atmosphere are hard to observe in the ocean. Seasonal variations, however, can be clearly seen. Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/
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June is National Ocean Month! To kick it off, here is a look at sea sur…
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The El Nino currently in place is expected to last through the Northern Hemisphere winter and likely become stronger. What does that mean for the weather this winter? Find out in this great dataset! Read more about it here: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/el-nino-and-la-nina-seasonal-impacts/ NOAA Education Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences CIRES Education & Outreach | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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The El Nino currently in place is expected to last through the North…
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We are excited to release five new datasets for SOS and SOSx about the upcoming solar eclipses that will be crossing North America in the next eight months! Up first is the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023, followed by the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The dataset shown here displays the paths for both eclipses. Along with the datasets, we have also released a live program that ties the datasets together and includes some solar eclipse activities. Check it out here: https://sos.
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We are excited to release five new datasets for SOS and SOSx about …
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Did you know the surface temperature of the moon varies dramatically? Areas illuminated by the Sun (white and red) can reach temperatures hot enough to boil water, while areas in shadow (blue) reach temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=386 | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Did you know the surface temperature of the moon varies dr…
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On this day in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded by instruments struck southern Chile with a magnitude we now know to be at least 9.5. This earthquake generated a tsunami that traveled through every ocean on earth, though large, dangerous waves only impacted the coastlines around the Pacific Ocean. This visualization from the US NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center shows the tsunami wave propagating across the Pacific Ocean. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/tsunami-historical
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On this day in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded by instr…
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It's World Oceans Day! This near real-time look at sea surface temperatures starts a year ago and goes through just two days ago. The oceans are colored based on their temperature. When you look at a year's worth of daily images like you are here, we can see seasonal changes in sea surface temperature. Does the sea surface temperature change a lot in your area? Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/sea-surface-temperature-real-time/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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It's World Oceans Day! This near real-time look at sea surface temp…
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Today is the last day of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season. It's been a busy year - check out this recap dataset! It includes both Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/hurricane-season-2017/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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Today is the last day of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season. It's bee…
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It's definitely hurricane season. If you're near any of these tropical storms (TS) and hurricanes/typhoons, please be careful! Follow the NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center for more details about Tropical Storm Olivia, Hurricane Florence, Tropical Storm Isaac, and Hurricane Helene. | NOAA Science On a Sphere
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It's definitely hurricane season. If you're near any of these tropical s…
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