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For four decades Landsat satellites have beamed back amazing pictures of the Earth from their perch far above the planet’s surface. The latest craft in the series was launched last month and among the first images it captured were pictures of the area around Fort Collins and the Galena Fire burn scar. The Landsat Data [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Up until the past week satellite imagery of northeastern Colorado was relatively boring – and very brown. In the wake of two storms, one of which was relatively significant, the image from the eyes in the sky changed considerably. Sunday’s storm brought much-needed precipitation to the drought-stricken area. Snowfall totals ranged from a high of [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Two powerful winter storms are set to collide over the northeastern United States today in what could be a record-breaking weather event. Many locations including Boston and New York City will see blizzard conditions in what some are calling a potentially historic event. Parts of New England will be measuring snow in feet when this [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.When a cold front pushed through Colorado late last week not only did it bring bitter cold temperatures, it also brought a great deal of wind to the state’s southeastern plains. NASA’s Aqua satellite was able to capture images of the ensuing dust storm as the cold front pushed through. As wind speeds increased dust [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The wintry weather that moved through Colorado over the past 48 hours provided some relief to the drought-stricken state. NASA satellites captured the snowy landscape of the Centennial State as the storm moved off toward the Midwest. The system covered much of the higher elevations of the Rocky Mountain region in snowfall. For Colorado this [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The ‘blue marble’ images captured by NASA satellites are extremely popular and showcase the Earth without borders in its natural beauty. New images dubbed ‘black marble’ show our planet at night with the lights of population dotting the landscape. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured the images in April and October and [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Satellite imagery is an incredible took for monitoring the weather, climate and wildfires. NASA and NOAA’s latest satellite, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (S-NPP), used its new capability to capture imagery of wildifres in Idaho at night. The new capability of S-NPP is something that earlier generation satellites lack. Using its the Visible Infrared Imaging [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs became a raging inferno and one of the most disastrous in Colorado history. New satellite imagery released by NASA shows the massive area burned by the blaze and provides perspective as to just how close it came to the state’s second largest city. Officials are hoping to announce [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.In only a week the Waldo Canyon Fire has scorched 17,000 acres and destroyed nearly 350 homes near Colorado Springs, Colorado. While thousands of residents remain evacuated, Google and DigitalGlobe have released satellite imagery providing a bird’s eye view of the devastation. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com. Be sure to check out [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Colorado’s deadly and destructive wildfire season continues with as many as a dozen blazes burning in recent days. Smoke from the fires has blanketed parts of the state in recent weeks and new NASA satellite imagery shows the smoke plumes from some of the blazes. Read the rest of this story and view the images on [...]
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