{"id":71773,"date":"2026-08-12T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=71773"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:01:29","slug":"solar-eclipse-shadow-as-viewed-by-goes-18-and-goes-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/71773","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse shadow as viewed by GOES-18 and GOES-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/08\/G18_NIR_NH_SOLAR_ECLIPSE_12AUG2026_loop_GOES-18_2026224_150022_2026224_183022.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>10-minute GOES-18 Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; images, from 1500-1830 UTC on 12 August<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10-minute Full Disk scan Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; images from GOES-18\/GOES-West <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> and GOES-19\/GOES-East <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> revealed the shadow of a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/future-eclipses\/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026\/\">total solar eclipse<\/a><\/strong> on 12 August 2026 &#8212; which began by moving eastward across far northern Alaska and Arctic Canada, then curved southeast across Greenland, Iceland and far western Europe before fading from view with sunset over western Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/08\/G19_NIR_NH_SOLAR_ECLIPSE_12AUG2026_loop_GOES-19_2026224_150021_2026224_193021.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>10-minute GOES-19 Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; images, from 1500-1930 UTC on 12 August<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A closer view of GOES-19 images <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the solar eclipse shadow as it passed across eastern Greenland and then Iceland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video autoplay controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/08\/G19_NIR_ICELAND_SOLAR_ECLIPSE_12AUG2026_loop_GOES-19_2026224_173021_2026224_180021.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>10-minute GOES-19 Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; images, from 1730-1800 UTC on 12 August<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-minute Full Disk scan Near-Infrared &#8220;Vegetation&#8221; images from GOES-18\/GOES-West (above) and GOES-19\/GOES-East (below) revealed the shadow of a total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 &#8212; which began by moving eastward across far northern Alaska and Arctic Canada, then curved southeast across Greenland, Iceland and far western Europe before fading from view with sunset over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":71783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,159,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-goes-19","category-solar-eclipse-shadow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773","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=71773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71778,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773\/revisions\/71778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}