Eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano in the West Indies
GOES-16 Ash RGB and SO2 RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]GOES-16 (GOES-East) Ash RGB and SO2 RGB images…
Interpreting SAR data over the Bering Sea
GOES-17 ABI Band 2 (0.64 µm) and Band 5 (1.61 µm) at 1740 UTC on 8 April 2021 (Click to…
LUCH (Olymp-K), an eavesdropping SIGINT snooping around commercial comsats
click image to enlargeBack in 2016, I published an article in The Space Review (A NEMESIS in the sky: PAN,…
Cyclone Seroja
Himawari-8 ‘Target Area’ clean window infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, 1224 – 2018 UTC on 5 April 2021 (Click to animate)…
Contests on QO-100 allowed in time for Yuri Gagarin contest
On April 4, AMSAT-DL announced the opening of the QO-100 NB satellite transponder to general contest operation in the upper…
Prescribed burns and industrial smoke plumes across the central US
GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]Every Spring season, many states conduct prescribed burns as a…
Early Spring over the Great Lakes
True-Color imagery derived from VIIRS on board NOAA-20 at 1824 UTC on 2 April 2021 (Click to enlarge) VIIRS data…
Thunderstorms northeast of Guam
Himawari-8 Band 13 Clean Window infrared imagery (10.41 µm) from 2300 UTC on 1 April through 1100 UTC 2 April…
Persistent region of cool sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Eastern Pacific
GOES-16 sea-surface temperatures (a clear-sky level 2 product) with ABI Band 13 overlain in regions of cloudiness. 1500 UTC on…
NUCAPS’ description of a post-frontal atmosphere
GOES-16 ABI Band 02 (0.64 µm) visible imagery, 1901 UTC, and NUCAPS estimates of Lapse Rate and Mixing Ratio at…