Heavy rains fell on South Carolina in early October 2015. By mid October, much of the water had carried sediment, nutrients and dissolved organic material into the Atlantic Ocean. This Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite image shows the runoff as it interacts with ocean currents on October 15, 2015.

Raytheon won a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract for a design study of Real Time Imager, an instrument to obtain high-resolution Earth observation imagery from geostationary orbit.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...