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<\/a>GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Full Disk images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice (and the Northern Hemisphere Winter Solstice) occurred at 1628 UTC on 21 December 2017. A 24-hour animation of GOES-16 Full Disk “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images ending just after the Solstice time (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed that the far southern latitudes remained illuminated during the entire time.<\/p>\n GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Close-up views of the far Southern Hemisphere portion of the GOES-16 Full Disk are shown using “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>and Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The most prominent feature was the cloud shield of a 960 hPa storm system (surface analysis<\/strong><\/a>) moving west of the Antarctic Peninsula and over the Bellingshausen Sea<\/strong><\/a> — on the Snow\/Ice images, clouds composed of ice crystals appear as darker shades of gray. At the end of each animation, land-fast sea ice<\/strong><\/a> can be seen extending northward from the Antarctic coast in the lower left portion of the images (ice appears bright white<\/em> on the Visible imagery, and dark gray<\/em> on the Snow\/Ice imagery). In the lower center portion of the images, bright sun glint off ice-free water is apparent on 21 December at 0445 and 0500 UTC.<\/p>\n<\/a>