The Blue Origin New Glenn NG-2 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 2055 UTC on 13 November 2025. A multi-panel display showing all 16 ABI spectral bands on the GOES-19 (GOES-East) satellite (above) revealed distinct thermal signatures in the 3 Water Vapor bands (08/09/10) at 2056 UTC, with... Read More
The Bald Mountain brush fire had been burning for several days in far western Virginia — but flared up on 12 November 2025, due to continued dry conditions and an increase in winds. 1-minute GOES-19 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (above) showed an initial... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Infrared images (above) showed a lake effect cloud band — exhibiting cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -49C (darker shades of orange) — over far southern Lake Michigan that was moving inland across parts of northwest Indiana and northeast Illinois after midnight on 10... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) daytime True Color RGB + nighttime Dust RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a plume of resuspended volcanic ash (hazy shades of tan in True Color RGB, and shades of violet in Dust RGB) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska — which was being... Read More
