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• What is NOAA? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has many responsibilities important in caring for our planet.
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• How does a satellite's job dictate its orbit? And how do orbits work anyway?
• How's the weather on other planets? If you think Earth can have bad weather, check out these other places!
• Be Spuzzled! Unscramble pictures of NOAA at work.
• What's the difference between fog and clouds?
• Learn satellite meteorology! A tutorial for grades 7-12.
• Be a citizen scientist! Join a network of citizen meteorologists and do real science.
• The sky is broken! To an aircraft, a volcanic ash cloud is like a sky full of broken glass.
• What makes it rain? And what causes snow, hail, and ice rain?
• Why does the Sun have temper tantrums? Explains the solar cycle, solar flares, and CMEs.
• Why is the sky blue? This may sound like an easy question--but it's not.
• What causes lightning and thunder? What is the source of all the blinding light and earth-shaking sound?