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photo of a passage from a handwritten cursive manuscript from an early draft of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder (1965)

April 10, 2024

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photo of a passage from a handwritten cursive manuscript from an early draft of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder (1965)

Black and white photo of Marie Tharpe at her drafting table in 1961.

March 21, 2024

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Black and white photo of Marie Tharpe at her drafting table in 1961.

Black and white portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver

The Legacy of Dr. George Washington Carver

February 21, 2024

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Black and white portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver

Photo of a NOAA satellite viewing Earth from orbit.

Celebrating Earth Day with NOAA Satellites

April 22, 2024

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Photo of a NOAA satellite viewing Earth from orbit.

This colorful photo shows reporters filming Hurricane Specialist Richard Pasch making a hurricane conference call with the National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the right, a man sits on one of a bank of phones with his back to us. Reporters with cameras and microphones crowd around the table.

Hurricane hotline phones: A direct line to 20th-century weather forecasting

May 1, 2024

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This colorful photo shows reporters filming Hurricane Specialist Richard Pasch making a hurricane conference call with the National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the right, a man sits on one of a bank of phones with his back to us. Reporters with cameras and microphones crowd around the table.

A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

Here's one of the first photos of a tornado ever

April 8, 2024

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A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

Photo of a plaque that reads, "About 600 meters East of this location lies the oldest triangulation station in America, Buttermilk 1833, Buttermilk Hill, This plaque is established as a bicentennial commemoration through the cooperation of: The Rockafeller Family, The Nation Geodetic Survey of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, The Westchester-Putnam Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Incorporated, 1976"

Celebrating National Surveyors Week with Buttermilk

March 18, 2024

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National Geodetic Survey

Photo of a plaque that reads, "About 600 meters East of this location lies the oldest triangulation station in America, Buttermilk 1833, Buttermilk Hill, This plaque is established as a bicentennial commemoration through the cooperation of: The Rockafeller Family, The Nation Geodetic Survey of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, The Westchester-Putnam Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Incorporated, 1976"

Photo of a scuba diver swimming past a shipwreck. The story title, "New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary, By Hans Van Tilburg and Rachel Plunkett" is overlayed onto the image.

New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary

March 5, 2024

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maritime heritage

Photo of a scuba diver swimming past a shipwreck. The story title, "New Study Opens Window to Cultural Past in Great Lakes Sanctuary, By Hans Van Tilburg and Rachel Plunkett" is overlayed onto the image.

Photo of the “Coastline” wave pool art installation outside NOAA’s Silver Spring, MD campus. Waves crash against a rough stone wall in a long rectangular pool.

Coastlines: Making waves outside, and inside, NOAA

January 30, 2024

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tides and currents

Photo of the “Coastline” wave pool art installation outside NOAA’s Silver Spring, MD campus. Waves crash against a rough stone wall in a long rectangular pool.

A collage of the five images from the NOAA heritage story, "Five significant moments in climate history."

Five significant moments in climate science history

January 17, 2024

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Earth science news

A collage of the five images from the NOAA heritage story, "Five significant moments in climate history."

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