Assuming the 11,500-pound spacecraft makes it into geostationary orbit safely, it’ll go by GOES-17. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8f7331086151385ac850fc/master/pass/goes-s-payload.jpg
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Watch NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter Fly into the Eye of Irma
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Check Out the Flashy Lightning Mapper on NOAA’s Weather Satellite
NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite can spot the lightning radar and other satellites miss, long before it even hits the ground. The post Check Out the Flashy Lightning Mapper on NOAA’s Weather Satellite appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Stunning footage of ‘cosmic jellyfish’ captured in NOAA’s expedition (VIDEO)
Published time: 2 Mar, 2017 02:55 A spectacular species of jellyfish has been captured by the NOAA near a previously unexplored seamount in the South Pacific ocean. Marine biologists on board the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Okeanos Explorer captured the hydromedusa jelly at the Utu seamount on February 21. READ MORE: Rescuers save […]
NOAA’s GOES-16 weather satellite takes its first solar images
NOAA’s next-gen weather satellite GOES-16 beamed back photos of the Earth and the moon back in January, but that was just a taste of what it can do. Now, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) onboard the satellite has taken its first solar images, and NOAA has stitched them together to create a video that you […]
