GOES-14 has been brought out of storage for station-keeping maintenance (a north-south maneuver is scheduled for 21 August 2012) and while active, it is providing one-minute imagery over selected regions of the United States. Today’s region of focus is the southeast part of the United States, and the imagery above... Read More

GOES-14 will be in Super-Rapid Scan mode for the next several weeks, meaning 1-minute imagery will be available over various footprints. The imagery from Aug 16 2012, above, shows the central United States, with morning convection over the western Great Lakes and convection over the Red River between Texas and... Read More

GOES-14 has been turned on and placed in normal mode for an annual north-south maneuver. It was placed in storage back in November 2010 to preserve battery power and payload (it was briefly brought out of storage in 2011). GOES-14 is overhead at approximately 105 degrees West longitude. The loop above of the 10.7 µm ‘window’ channel shows... Read More

Mount Tongariro in New Zealand (on the North Island) erupted on Monday, August 6th, for the first time in a century. A Suomi-NPP overpass at 12:52 UTC, approximately one hour after the eruption, allowed the day-night band to capture an image of the volcanic plume as it moved eastward across... Read More