A timely overpass of Landsat-9 provided a 30-meter resolution “Natural Color” RGB image of the Mauna Loa eruption site at 2048 UTC on 02 December 2022 — as viewed using RealEarth (above). The signature of hot lava (varying shades of red to yellow) flowing from the volcano’s Northeast Rift Zone... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) along and in the wake of a strong cold front that was moving southward across the High Plains on 02 December 2022.A Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image valid at 1905... Read More

After 1800 UTC on 01 December 2022, changes were made to Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) imagery that is distributed via the Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) for AWIPS users (see the bottom section of this TOWR-S Communications). One change was the increase in spatial resolution of the ABI Band 13 “Clean” Infrared... Read More