On February 9, 2023, an ozone-measuring instrument on the recently launched NOAA-21 satellite opened its doors and, over the course of a week, gathered data for its first global image. The Ozone ...

Since fall 2024, NASA scientists have flown a 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of atmospheric data - including through a hurricane. The goal is to ...

Launched Tuesday to the space station, the COWVR and TEMPEST two instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather forecasting. The Compact Ocean Wind Vector ...

No audio available for this content. To get the best measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, you sometimes have to leave it. This November, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will do just that.

Daily measurements of temperature and air pressure began at the site on July 14, 1795 (though less regular readings had been taken a year earlier). About 150 people, some of them scientists from ...