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<\/a>GOES-17 Near-Infrared, Shortwave Infrared and Water Vapor images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> Near-Infrared \u201cSnow\/Ice\u201d (1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>). Near-Infrared \u201cCloud Particle Size\u201d (2.24 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>). Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed signatures of the DART Mission<\/strong><\/a> from Vandenberg Space Force Base in southern California on 24 November 2021. Shortly after the 0620 UTC launch, a warm thermal signature of the SpaceX Falcon 9<\/strong><\/a> booster appeared in all 6 of these ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands. Note that there were two 0621 UTC images; the 06:21:17 image was from the GOES-17 CONUS Sector — which, because it was scanning a much larger area, didn’t actually scan the rocket plume until around 06:21:57 UTC (the GOES-17 Mesoscale Sector 1 was scanning the rocket plume about 2 seconds earlier, at 06:21:55 UTC).<\/p>\n The corresponding GOES-17 Visible (spectral bands 1 and 2) and Near-Infrared (spectral bands 3-6) images are shown below. Since the satellite was viewing the rocket from the west, a very faint reflectance signature of the Falcon 9 booster could be seen in the first 3 post-launch 0.64 \u00b5m (Band 2) Visible images — but no discernible signature was evident in the lower-resolution 0.47 \u00b5m (Band 1) Visible imagery.<\/p>\n