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PART3
HOW WE LOOK AT EARTH
Successfully understanding how Earth works and looks to us requires integrative and innovative approaches to observation and measurement. These approaches include earth observation in varying forms, such as from sensors on satellites, aircraft, drones, and ships. They also include the important data science issues of conducting analysis; modeling, developing, and documenting useful datasets for science; and interoperating between these datasets and between various approaches.
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured this true-color image of the United States on September 15, 2020, showing smoke from fires in the West drifting over the country, several hurricanes converging from different angles, and Hurricane Sally making landfall. Red points in the west note areas that are significantly higher in temperature than the areas around it and are indicative of fires.