10-minute Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse shadow as it progressed southeastward from the Pacific Northwest to Brazil on 14 October 2023.GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images — in the native projection of the GOES-16 satellite (below) — provided another view of the eclipse... Read More
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s SSEC Satellite Data Services added NOAA GOES SUVI (Solar UV Imager) images, both GOES-16 and GOES-18 (pulldown menu names: SUVI GOES-18 and SUVI GOES-18) to the Geo-Browser. More on SUVI can be found at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center or this site. The Geo-browser SUVI page allows for longer loops, RGB composites,... Read More
Sometimes space weather can be just as noteworthy as weather on Earth. There was an X1 solar flare on October 28, 2021, at 10:35AM CDT (15:35Z) detected by the GOES Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI). The GOES-16 and 17 satellites each house the SUVI, which is an extreme ultraviolet telescope that... Read More
