NOAA-N Prime Beauty Shot Animation

  • Released Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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An artist concept of the spacecraft. The microwave instruments on board NOAA-N Prime are so sensitive that they can see Earth's surface through clouds. NOAA-N Prime will deliver essential atmospheric and surface parameters to use in scientific forecast models. N Prime provides essential critical information for creating accurate weather forecasts 2-3 days in advance.

Beauty pass of the NOAA-N Prime satellite.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab

This page was originally published on Wednesday, January 21, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

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