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October 14, 2024

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[ October 14, 2024 ] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch NASA’s Europa Clipper on Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kenney Space Center Falcon Heavy
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Suomi NPP sees Hurricane Maria’s startling effect on Puerto Rico power grid

September 26, 2017 Stephen Clark

A light scanner aboard NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sensitive to city lights, wildfires and volcanic eruptions has returned views of Puerto Rico before and after the passage of Hurricane Maria, showing the island’s electrical grid ravaged in the aftermath of the storm.