10-minute interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images (source) from 0930-1900 UTC on 13-26 November 2023 (above) showed Iceberg A23a just east-northeast of Joinville Island (at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula). Although cloud-free periods were scarce during those 14 days, even on most of the cloudy days the silhouette... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images with an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density (above) showed a glaciating (brighter shades of green) to glaciated (pale shades of yellow) lake effect snow band streaming inland off Lake Erie on 17 November 2023. There were 4 brief periods of lightning activity seen just south of the Buffalo, New... Read More

GOES-East fire detection products in RealEarth allow users to assess burning areas across the Continental United States. In the example below, burning appears to be occurring in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. These fire detections in southern Louisiana are picked up by the GOES scene fire detection and by the GOES fire... Read More

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands plus a Rocket Plume RGB (above) — which displayed signatures of the SpaceX Starship 2 rocket that was launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 13:02:53 UTC on 18 November 2023. The Stage 1 rocket booster condensation... Read More