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Archive: Tue Sep 2018

Mode 6 Testing with GOES-17

GOES-17 imagery shown here is preliminary and non-operational. The default scanning strategy for the Advanced Baseline Imager on GOES-16 is Mode 3, also known as Flex Mode.  In Mode 3, there are 2 Mesoscale Sectors scanned every minute, a CONUS sector scanned every 5 minutes, and a Full Disk... Read More