One of the most popular GOES products is the True Color RGB. There’s a lot to like about it: a constantly updating full color view of the planet, watching clouds swirl above sapphire seas and emerald forests. It can be positively mesmerizing to watch loops of this product, at least... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan JMA Himawari-8 Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images (above) showed 2 pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by a large bushfire in Western Australia on 17 November 2025. The pyroCb cloud pulses exhibited a cloud-top 10.4 µm infrared brightness temperature (IRBT) of -40ºC... Read More
The EUMETSAT Sentinel-6B satellite was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Center in California at 0521 UTC on 17 November 2025 (9:21 PM Pacific Time on 16 November). A 1-minute multi-panel display of all 16 ABI spectral bands on the GOES-18 (GOES-West) satellite (above) showed that a thermal signature of the Falcon... Read More
The Blue Origin New Glenn NG-2 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 2055 UTC on 13 November 2025. A multi-panel display showing all 16 ABI spectral bands on the GOES-19 (GOES-East) satellite (above) revealed distinct thermal signatures in the 3 Water Vapor bands (08/09/10) at 2056 UTC, with... Read More
