The recent Solar Eclipse that extended from the south Indian Ocean to the central north Pacific Ocean (Blog Post) traversed a region that is routinely monitored by different geostationary satellites — Himawari-9, GEOKOMPSAT-2A (GK2A) and FY-4A/FY-4B. Himawari-9 and GK2A have sub-satellite points on the Equator that are separated by only 12.5... Read More

JMA Himawari-9 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images (above) showed the southwest-to-northeast transect of a hybrid solar eclipse shadow as it moved across the South Indian Ocean and passed over parts of Australia, Indonesia and the West Pacific Ocean on 20 April 2023. A portion of the shadow also moved over Tropical Storm... Read More

Early on June 10th, 2021 there was a solar eclipse for the northern portions of the globe. This was not a total, but annular (or “ring”) solar eclipse. Satellite instruments, such as NOAA’s ABI on GOES-16 (East) can monitor the shadow of the moon as it falls on the Earth.... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the passage of a total solar eclipse shadow across parts of Chile and Argentina, along with the land surface thermal response due to the interruption of incoming solar radiation. In areas... Read More