1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) nighttime Dust RGB + daytime True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed a plume of resuspended volcanic ash (shades of pink/magenta at night, hazy shades of tan during the day) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska — which was being transported offshore across the... Read More

GOES-16 became the operational GOES-East back in December of 2017 (link). At 1510 UTC, GOES-19 replaced by GOES-16 as the operational GOES-East. GOES-16 is now the back-up satellite for GOES-East and GOES-West, and will presently move to the storage position at 105oW. The animation below from the CSPP Geosphere site shows GOES-16 and then GOES-19 true-color imagery. There... Read More