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This is a rectangular image of a sunglint over land. The upper two-thirds of the image shows land with clouds floating over it. The lower third of the image is largely ocean. In the center of the image is a red outline of a square and in the center of the square is a red, green, and blue sunglint.

A Glint of Understanding

NASA researchers and data offer new insights into the impish and interesting visual phenomenon of sunglint in satellite imagery.
Feature Article
June 25, 2024
This rectangular image shows phytoplankton levels along Florida and the East Coast of the United States, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Land is colored in muted shades of brown and green, water is dark blue, and snow is white. Nearshore are bands of light to dark green depicting picoeukaryote organism levels. Further out to sea are regions in variations of light blue showing the presences of prochlorococcus cyanobacteria.

New PACE Data Tutorials

A series of Jupyter notebook tutorials show how to retrieve and use data from NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
News
May 31, 2024
True-color corrected reflectance image of fires and smoke over Honduras on 21 May 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi-NPP satellite

Fires and Smoke over Honduras and Surrounding Countries

Base true-color corrected reflectance image acquired by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite on May 21, 2024, overlaid with the Fires and Thermal Anomalies and Aerosol Index layers.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 23, 2024
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