The United States satellite images displayed are infrared (IR) images. Warmest (lowest) clouds are shown in white; coldest (highest) clouds are displayed in shades of yellow, red, and purple.

Heavy bands of lake effect snow have battered the Northeast in recent weeks, and it was seen in spectacular detail from space.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A new image from Hubble shows a beautiful patch of the famous Tarantula Nebula.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

NASA AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) imagery on Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. ET shows the cold clouds raining over eastern ... that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite.

Sunlight will reflect off the snow pack and it appears as a solid white area that doesn't move when you put the satellite into loop mode. With infrared satellites, the whiter clouds represent ...

One common product generated by the ABI is infrared imagery, which uses the temperature of the cloud tops to generate a satellite image. Cloud tops can range in temperature from 10°C for the ...