The sequence of 5 daily Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images shown above are centered on Beijing in northeastern China — these images (viewed using RealEarth) showed the transition from the Beijing area being sunny and snow-covered on 26 November to enshrouded in dense smog on 30 November 2015.... Read More

GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 µm) and Shortwave infrared (3.9 µm) images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed the smoke plume and “hot spot” (dark black to red pixels) associated with a large and fast-burning grass fire in north-central Colorado on the afternoon... Read More

GOES-13 visible (0.63 µm) images (above; click to play animation) displayed distinct dark-gray ash plumes from 2 separate daytime eruptions of the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador on 14 August 2015 (there was also an initial eruption that occurred during the preceding nighttime hours). The asterisk near the center of the images... Read More

Wildfires continued to burn across parts of the interior of Alaska during the 22-25 July 2015 period, as is shown in GOES-15 (GOES-West) 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (above; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file). Also of interest is: (1) the diurnal... Read More