The NASA GOES-12 satellite (GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) took her last images of Earth on August 16, after 3,788 days monitoring our weather.
To commemorate it's decommissioning, NOAAVisualizations made a video of ten years of it's watching the Earth's weather patterns — all in about three minutes.
The satellite witnessed such memorable events as the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season that birthed Katrina (starting about 40 seconds into the video) and the devastating series of blizzards during the winter of 2009-2010, starting about 2 minutes in.
The satellite's view starts changing halfway through the video because thruster control issues took it out of normal service. It transitioned to a greater view of South America as the first GOES-South.
[youtube_browser]ieILUnkdD90[/youtube_browser]
Stunning New Animation Of Earth At Night Appears To Show Hurricane Sandy Making Landfall
The most detailed picture of our planet at night was unveiled at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco today, Dec. 5.
The incredible global view comes from a joint NASA-NOAA satellite, called Suomi NPP, which carries an instrument (the day-night band) that is sensitive enough to detect light from a highway lamp, a ship at sea, or a wildfire in the middle of the night.
A snapshot of Earth's city lights was pieced together from images acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012 — which means that the satellite also got a good look at Hurricane Sandy barreling toward the Eastern seaboard at the end of October.
From NASA:
T
he day-night band observed Hurricane Sandy, illuminated by moonlight, making landfall over New Jersey on the evening of Oct. 29. Night images showed the widespread power outages that left millions in darkness in the wake of the storm.
In this stunning animation of Earth spinning in the night sky, compiled from hundreds of real images, it looks like Hurricane Sandy is that big light blue splotch off the U.S. East Coast
[youtube_browser]chraFZpd7aY[/youtube_browser]
The Clearest View Of Earth At Night Ever Captured
To commemorate it's decommissioning, NOAAVisualizations made a video of ten years of it's watching the Earth's weather patterns — all in about three minutes.
The satellite witnessed such memorable events as the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season that birthed Katrina (starting about 40 seconds into the video) and the devastating series of blizzards during the winter of 2009-2010, starting about 2 minutes in.
The satellite's view starts changing halfway through the video because thruster control issues took it out of normal service. It transitioned to a greater view of South America as the first GOES-South.
[youtube_browser]ieILUnkdD90[/youtube_browser]
Stunning New Animation Of Earth At Night Appears To Show Hurricane Sandy Making Landfall
The most detailed picture of our planet at night was unveiled at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco today, Dec. 5.
The incredible global view comes from a joint NASA-NOAA satellite, called Suomi NPP, which carries an instrument (the day-night band) that is sensitive enough to detect light from a highway lamp, a ship at sea, or a wildfire in the middle of the night.
A snapshot of Earth's city lights was pieced together from images acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012 — which means that the satellite also got a good look at Hurricane Sandy barreling toward the Eastern seaboard at the end of October.
From NASA:
T
he day-night band observed Hurricane Sandy, illuminated by moonlight, making landfall over New Jersey on the evening of Oct. 29. Night images showed the widespread power outages that left millions in darkness in the wake of the storm.
In this stunning animation of Earth spinning in the night sky, compiled from hundreds of real images, it looks like Hurricane Sandy is that big light blue splotch off the U.S. East Coast
[youtube_browser]chraFZpd7aY[/youtube_browser]
The Clearest View Of Earth At Night Ever Captured
