Images and Data : The Science Collection
- OMPS Continues More Than 30 Years of Ozone Data
- This shows the thickness of the Earth's ozone layer on January 27th from 1982 to 2012. This atmospheric layer protects Earth from dangerous levels of solar ultraviolet radiation.
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- Infrared Sounder on Suomi NPP Starts its Mission
- The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) is designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth's atmosphere and improve weather forecasts and our understanding of climate, has started sending its data back to Earth.
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- 'First Light' Taken by CERES Instrument
- This longwave image shows heat energy radiated from Earth . The CERES results help scientists to determine the Earth's energy balance, providing a long-term record of this crucial environmental parameter that will be consistent with those of its predecessors.
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- Tropical Cyclone Funso
- Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument provides various looks of Tropical Cyclone Funso.
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- NPP's 'Blue Marble'
- A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from Suomi NPP's VIIRS instrument . This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.
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- Southeastern United States
- The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) produced these 'true-color', color scaled, and gray scaled variations. This was taken on January 19, 2012, the first day the full complement of VIIRS' 22 channels were active.
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- First Global Image from VIIRS
- The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) gets a complete view of our planet every day. This image from November 24, 2011, is the first complete global image from VIIRS.
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- Suomi NPP Satellite Acquires First VIIRS Image
- This Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) image is of a broad swath of Eastern North America from Canada's Hudson Bay past Florida to the northern coast of Venezuela.
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- NPP Satellite Acquires First ATMS Measurements
- The image shows the ATMS channel 18 data, which measures water vapor in the lower atmosphere. Tropical Storm Sean is visible in the data, as the patch of blue, in the Atlantic off the coast of the Southeastern United States.
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