News tagged with geostationary satellite

One week of ash from Mexico's volcano

(Phys.org) -- Satellites continue to provide a look at the ash and gas clouds being emitted from Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano. NASA has animated imagery from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite to provide a week long ...

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created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ash cloud from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano (w/ video)

(Phys.org) -- NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-13, captures visible and infrared images of weather over the eastern U.S. every 15 minutes, and spotted an ash and gas cloud streaming from Mexico's ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GOES satellite movie tracked tornadic Texas trouble

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Another severe weather system seen on satellite movie from NASA

Another powerful weather system is moving through the central and eastern U.S., generating more severe weather. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite movie shows movement of tornadic weather system

A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GOES-13 satellite sees 'giant white spike' of clouds bringing U.S. severe weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Severe weather is expected to impact the southeastern U.S. today, and the GOES-13 satellite captured an image of a line of clouds associated with the strong cold front that looks like a giant ...

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Russia launches US telecoms satellite into orbit

Russian successfully launched a US Intelsat satellite into space late Wednesday, aboard a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, a Russian space agency official said.

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created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Lee's remnants continue to drench the Eastern US

Landfalling tropical cyclones can bring a lot of rain, but after Lee made landfall and merged with a stalled frontal system over the eastern U.S. the rain keeps coming. Lee's clouds, however, continue to remain ...

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dramatic satellite image shows daylight breaking over newborn Atlantic Tropical Storm Katia

Tropical Depression 12 strengthened into tropical storm Katia as daylight broke in the eastern Atlantic this morning. Stunning satellite imagery from the GOES-13 satellite revealed a well-formed tropical storm ...

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created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA eyes two more Atlantic tropical cyclones while Irene drenches Canada

While the remnants of Hurricane Irene drench Quebec and Newfoundland, Canada today, NASA satellites are keeping tabs on two other tropical cyclones in the Atlantic: Tropical Storm Jose and newly formed Tropical ...

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Irene becomes a major hurricane on GOES-13 Satellite video

When a satellite can see a hurricane's eye clearly from space, that's an indication of a strong tropical cyclone and the GOES-13 satellite saw just that in Hurricane Irene this morning as she became a major ...

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created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA sees heavy rain in Hurricane Irene, satellite video watches her growth

Before Irene even reached hurricane status, a NASA satellite saw heavy rainfall and hot towering thunderstorm clouds around the storm's center this weekend. That heavy rainfall is expected as Irene continues ...

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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA satellites see heavy rains for Central America from Tropical Depression 8

The eighth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season formed from the low pressure System 93L on August 19 at 8 a.m. EDT and satellite data from NASA shows strong rainmaking potential as the ...

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created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite data confirms Greg a hurricane, Fernanda a tropical storm

Big sisters don't like being overshadowed by their younger brothers and that's what has happened in the eastern Pacific Ocean with Tropical Storm Fernanda and now Hurricane Greg. Despite the difference in ...

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created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GOES-11 satellite sees Tropical Storms Fernanda and 'little brother' Greg chasing each other

The Eastern Pacific Ocean is fired up with two tropical storms today, Fernanda and Greg, and both were caught in one image from the GOES-11 satellite. Both appear to be chasing each other to the west, and ...

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created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0