Tropical Storm Dorian has formed in the far eastern Tropical Atlantic, just west of the Cape Verde Islands. The visible imagery above, from GOES-13 (left) and GOES-12 (right) shows the evolution of the storm in the morning on July 25th. The position change in six hours between 0845 UTC and 1445 UTC... Read More

The shallow-water natural gas drilling rig Hercules 265 (located in about 150 feet of water, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana) caught fire late in the evening on 23 July 2013. This fire event was captured by polar orbiting satellites with VIIRS, MODIS, and AVHRR instruments (above) and also... Read More

Tropical Storm Chantal, the third named storm of the northern Atlantic Tropical Season, has rapidly moved through the Lesser Antilles and into the eastern Caribbean Sea. The stereoscopic view of Chantal, above, uses visible (0.65 µm) imagery from GOES-12 (over the Equator at 60 W) and visible (0.63 µm) imagery... Read More

Special update: GOES-13 is scheduled to become the operational GOES-East on June 6, 2013 at approximately 1545 UTC. Link.Special update #2:GOES-13 will become the operational GOES-East Satellite no sooner than Monday 10 June 2013 Link.GOES-13 will become operational GOES-East at approximately 1545 UTC on Monday June 10. Link.(Update on the... Read More