This beautiful true color view of Earth is from the Advanced Baseline Imager on NOAA's GOES-16 satellite. On March 1st, the satellite that will become GOES-17 (it's called GOES-S while it's on the ground) is scheduled to be launched. GOES-17 will be positioned to the west of GOES-16 and extend the coverage we have of this high resolution view of Earth. Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/earth-in-true-color-goes-16-real-time/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere

Our planet is getting warmer. Every year, NASA and NOAA calculate the average surface temperature around the globe. These annual temperature data make up the global temperature record – and it’s how scientists know that the planet is warming. Red spirals in this visualization indicate years with warmer-than-average temperatures. The visualization “turns red” after 1975, showing that most of Earth’s warming has occurred in the last several decades. Overall, the average global temperature on Earth