Google's Earth and Maps have had an update that "virtually eliminates clouds" for most of the world. Some of the new images of the Earth also have a much better resolution than before, to bring ...

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Blue and white planet Forget Earth as a pale blue marble, or perhaps a water planet, decades of satellite observations show Earth is actually dominated by clouds. A new global cloud map based on ...

An example of 3D mapping produced by LiDAR. Image credit: Nuview. Clouds and darkness: These are the two challenges that bedevil every Earth observation (EO) satellite that relies on visible light ...

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it would be without them. But as Earth gets warmer, mostly due to the rise ...

The National Weather Service's sky cover map, updated this morning, projects the amount of opaque clouds expected to block the sky. The map shows 28% cloud cover in Spokane and 36% in Yakima at 11 p.m ...

Despite the fact that clouds envelop two-thirds of the planet at any given time, transport water on the wind, and shield the Earth from the sun, surprisingly little is known about how climate change ...