Scijinks

NOAA NASA

Satellites and Technology

• Help to capture and store the flood of data from GOES-R.
• To an aircraft, a volcanic ash cloud is like a sky full of broken glass.
• It is easy to understand and fun to think about in this little book.
• And how do orbits work anyway?
• Unscramble pictures of NOAA at work.
• These satellites are helping us to understand our very complex planet.
• Print them small or print them large. You choose.
• An introduction to these amazing workhorse satellites.
• Follow a new GOES satellite as it is prepared for launch.
• GOES-P goes to space.
• How does a weather forecaster know what to forecast?
• Power out? GPS broken? Credit card rejected? Maybe a solar storm is to blame.