{"id":58111,"date":"2024-04-01T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=58111"},"modified":"2024-04-02T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:07:22","slug":"64th-anniversary-of-the-first-image-from-a-meteorological-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/58111","title":{"rendered":"64th anniversary of the first image from a meteorological satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/first_tiros1_image.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/first_tiros1_image.gif\" alt=\"TIROS-1 visible image\" width=\"640\" height=\"713\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">TIROS-1 visible image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today marks the 64th anniversary of the first image from the meteorological satellite <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TIROS-1\">TIROS-1<\/a><\/strong>, which was available on 01 April 1960. While TIROS-1 was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vlab.noaa.gov\/web\/nws-heritage\/-\/the-satellite-era-begins?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fnws-heritage%2Four-stories2%2F-%2Ftag%2Fsatellite\">only operational for 78 days<\/a><\/strong>, it provided a number of images of the Earth and cloud systems <em>(including the first image of a tropical cyclone, over the South Pacific Ocean on 10 April 1960)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a title=\"TIROS-1 first image documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecmwf.int\/en\/about\/media-centre\/news\/2010\/first-tv-picture-space\"><strong>this information<\/strong><\/a> suggests that the TIROS-1 image shown above &#8212; which has gained notoriety as being the first &#8212; was actually taken at 1608 UTC on 02 April 1960! Apparently the true &#8220;first image&#8221; from TIROS-1 was taken at 1331 UTC on 01 April 1960, which is shown below (courtesy of Rick Kohrs, SSEC).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/the_real_first_TIROS-1_image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/the_real_first_TIROS-1_image.png\" alt=\"The actual first TIROS-1 image (taken on 01 April 1960)\" width=\"640\" height=\"1013\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The actual first TIROS-1 image (taken at 1331 UTC on 01 April 1960)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 64th anniversary of the first image from the meteorological satellite TIROS-1, which was available on 01 April 1960. While TIROS-1 was only operational for 78 days, it provided a number of images of the Earth and cloud systems (including the first image of a tropical cyclone, over the South Pacific Ocean on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":58119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-tiros"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58130,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58111\/revisions\/58130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}