For the first time since 1924, a major eruption of the Raikoke volcano occurred around 1800 UTC on 21 June 2019. Himawari-8 False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed — via the brighter yellow areas — that a large portion of the volcanic plume was rich... Read More

GOES-13 was taken out of storage on 19 June 2019 to begin a period of Image Navigation and Registration (INR) testing — the Satellite Data Services positioned a spare rooftop antenna to begin ingesting the GVAR data from the satellite (positioned over the Equator at 60.2º W longitude) . Visible images from... Read More

An earth-shaking refinery explosion (News story 1, 2) occurred in Philadelphia, PA under variably cloudy skies on Friday morning 21 June 2019. The toggle above shows GOES-16 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared imagery from the mesoscale sector (with 1-minute imagery) and from the CONUS sector (with 5-minute imagery) at similar nominal... Read More