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GOES

Just over a year ago, the United States launched its latest generation weather satellite, the GOES-R satellite (abbreviation stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite). The satellite has been in testing, non-operational mode for the last year so that it can be calibrated with the previous GOES satellites that have been the US’s main weather satellites for years. This satellite basically captures HD photos of half the planet every few minutes, with a number of spectrometers to measure cloud cover, atmospheric moisture, the earth’s magnetic field, lightning, and interactions between the solar wind and the upper atmosphere.

This week, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, who runs this series of satellites, brought this satellite into full service, replacing the GOES-East satellite that monitored US Weather since 2010. Along with this satellite becoming active, they debuted a website that provides active imagery from the satellite. Here is a full disk shot of the planet Earth taken Monday Night, using the full suite of spectrometers to create a near true-color image of the surface, including clouds and surface lights.

-JBB

Image credit: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES16_FullDisk.php

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Geocolor Image From NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite of Powerful East Coast Storm by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Via Flickr: This Geocolor image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite captures the deepening storm off the East coast of the United States on Jan. 4, 2018, at 16:22 UTC.Â The powerful nor'easter is battering coastal areas with heavy snow and strong winds, from Florida to Maine. Notice the long line of clouds stretching over a thousand miles south of the storm, which is drawing moisture all the way from deep in the Caribbean. Image credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines

From NASA Image of the Day; February 27, 2017:

Images of the Sun From the GOES-16 Satellite

These images of the sun were captured at the same time on January 29, 2017 by the six channels on the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite. They show a large coronal hole in the sun’s southern hemisphere. Data from SUVI will provide an estimation of coronal plasma temperatures and emission measurements which are important to space weather forecasting.

SUVI is essential to understanding active areas on the sun, solar flares and eruptions that may lead to coronal mass ejections which may impact Earth. Depending on the magnitude of a particular eruption, a geomagnetic storm can result that is powerful enough to disturb Earth’s magnetic field. Such an event may impact power grids by tripping circuit breakers, disrupt communication and satellite data collection by causing short-wave radio interference and damage orbiting satellites and their electronics. SUVI will allow the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to provide early space weather warnings to electric power companies, telecommunication providers and satellite operators.

NASA successfully launched GOES-R at 6:42 p.m. EST on November 19, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It was renamed GOES-16 when it achieved orbit. GOES-16 is now observing the planet from an equatorial view approximately 22,300 miles above the surface of the Earth.

Image Credit: NOAA; Editor: Sarah Loff

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GOES-16: Earth & moon from geostationary orbit, January 15th 2017. GOES-16 deliberately takes images of the moon every so often for calibration, because weather varies and the moon doesn't. Credit: NOAA/NASA

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Earth amp Moon as pictured by GOES- launched as GOES-R from geostationary orbit

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Shadow

The US’s GOES-16 weather satellite (still in its testing/non-operational phase) sent back this series of photos taken every 5 minutes today, showing the shadow of the moon marching across the continent. Video shared originally here:

https://twitter.com/UWSSEC/status/899707692364836866

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu

-JBB

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Lightning storm from above One exciting instrument lofted into space aboeard NASA's GOES satellite launched last November (see our coverage of its scientific debut at http://bit.ly/2rwGhtT) is called the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the first videos of storms over the USA last month have just been released, giving us a similar view to that enjoyed by astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station. The instrument tracks both cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning. . Loz Image credit: NASA http://bit.ly/2jJEejK http://bit.ly/2rspiJW http://bit.ly/2lIgE6y

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GOES-16

On Monday, The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration began showing off their newest toy, the GOES-16 weather satellite (previously known as GOES-R). The abbreviation stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – basically meaning that this satellite sits in place over one hemisphere and takes regular pictures of the planet. The instrument that took these shots, the Advanced Baseline Imager, will send high definition imagery of the planet back to the surface every 15 minutes, allowing rapid tracking of storm and other weather systems. The shot of the moon was taken with the satellite pointing that way as the moon’s surface is bright and makes a good calibration target. The satellite also caught a weather system moving over the Central US on January 15th and waves caused by the mountains in South America in this sequence. Other instruments on the satellite are expected to monitor water vapor in the atmosphere and lightning activity.

The satellite is currently undergoing calibration and is expected to enter service as a full time weather satellite at the end of this year. Assuming construction and funding go as planned, a similar satellite is scheduled to launch next year – the U.S. maintains 2 active weather satellites in geostationary positions to monitor weather on both of its coasts (with a third satellite held in a backup spot to replace either of the others in the event of damage).

-JBB

Image credits: NOAA/NASA http://bit.ly/2jR4fzv