The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) allows a user to manipulate VIIRS data to create high-quality, full-resolution imagery (see, for example, this I05 example, and this Day Night Band example, and this I01 example). In addition to single-band images, imagery for products such as Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) can also be created, as shown above. Polar2grid software... Read More

A series of LightningCast Probability plots from this RealEarth-powered website, below, shows increasing probabilities of lightning over the South Pacific to the south of American Samoa’s Manu’a Islands. The 75% contour (magenta) appears at 0530 UTC; the first GLM observation is shown at 0620 UTC. LightningCast is the probability that a GLM observation will occur... Read More

Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands plus a Rocket Plume RGB (above) — which displayed signatures of the SpaceX Starship 2 rocket that was launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 13:02:53 UTC on 18 November 2023. The Stage 1 rocket booster condensation... Read More

The Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) on GOES East captured a partial solar eclipse during the new moon on November 13th. But the moon’s shadow didn’t reach Earth. Why’s that?Solar eclipses are only possible when the new moon occurs near the nodes of the lunar orbit, which is where the... Read More