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<\/a>10-minute GOES-19 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images, from 0030-0120 UTC on 13 August [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East)<\/em> Nighttime Microphyscics RGB<\/strong><\/a> images from the CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a signature of the Ariane-62<\/strong><\/a> rocket condensation cloud (darker shades of blue) following the launch of EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Metop-SGA1<\/strong><\/a> from Europe’s Spaceport (Guyana Space Center<\/strong><\/a>) at Kourou, French Guyana about 3 hours after sunset on 12 August 2025 (the launch time was 0037 UTC on 13 August). The ascending rocket booster condensation cloud was initially apparent in the 0040 UTC image<\/strong><\/a>, followed by the lower-altitude condensation cloud originating from near the launch site (which spread out along and near the coast).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphyscics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a signature of the Ariane-62 rocket condensation cloud (darker shades of blue) following the launch of EUMETSAT Metop-SGA1 from Europe’s Spaceport (Guyana Space Center) at Kourou, French Guyana about 3 hours after sunset on 12 August 2025 (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":66385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,58,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-metop","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384","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=66384"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66409,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions\/66409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![0040 UTC image<\/strong><\/a>, followed by the lower-altitude condensation cloud originating from near the launch site (which spread out along and near the coast).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphyscics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a signature of the Ariane-62 rocket condensation cloud (darker shades of blue) following the launch of EUMETSAT Metop-SGA1 from Europe’s Spaceport (Guyana Space Center) at Kourou, French Guyana about 3 hours after sunset on 12 August 2025 (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":66385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,58,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-metop","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384","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=66384"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66409,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions\/66409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/goeseast_abi_radf_true_color_night_20250813004021.png\"){kind=link}