Data Sources
The trusted public agencies and providers that power forecasts, imagery, and astronomy data.
- NOAA / National Weather Service: local forecasts, alerts, and hourly conditions.
- NOAA NESDIS GOES imagery: full-disk Blue Dot satellite image tile.
- USNO Astronomical Applications: sun and moon timing data.
- NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) Dataset 5587 (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5587/): moon phase imagery by UTC hour-of-year frame.
- Open-Meteo: UV and supplemental environmental data.
Visual assets and attribution
Blue Dot Weather uses a mix of original brand artwork and properly licensed third-party visual assets.
- Weather icon set: Licensed Adobe Stock icon package (asset ID 565712861).
- Global background image: Licensed Adobe Stock image (asset ID 289079499).
- Alternative background image: Photo by Timothee Lacombe on Unsplash.
- Pale Blue Dot / Earthrise pages: Individually credited to NASA/JPL-Caltech and NASA Apollo 8 sources on their respective pages.
- Brand logos and product icons: Original Blue Dot Weather brand assets.
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