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A Press Release About An Image You Can't See

By Keith Cowing on July 28, 2009 1:27 PM

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NASA and NOAA's GOES-14 Satellite Takes First Full Disk Image

"The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earth’s surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a distance of seven football fields."

Keith's note: This press release - a release that announces an image - contains five web addresses that readers are supposed to visit. At the time I am posting this, none of those 5 web addresses has the image that this press release is announcing. So .... why issue the release?

Keith's update: According to NASA PAO someone had a web problem. The image is now online here.

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Tim | July 28, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply

It's right there at the top of the page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GOES-O/main/index.html

Editor's note - it is there now but it was not online when the release went out.

Mary | July 28, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply

Try this link:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/3054

They're great pictures!

Tod R. Lauer | July 28, 2009 5:11 PM | Reply

Wonderful specular reflection from the ocean...

Andrew Tubbiolo | July 28, 2009 6:02 PM | Reply

Wow! Look at those contrails going into and out of Southern California, and the same with Seattle. Nice! We'll have to look at some photos during launches making heavy use of large SRBs.

Andrew

bc | July 28, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply

Hey! I can see my house from here...

Come on. You know someone had to say it. ;)

Gerry | July 28, 2009 6:22 PM | Reply

Anyone who has Dish Network can watch live full disk image from 22,000 miles. Complete with music. It is called Dish Earth on Channel 212.

fred sanford | July 29, 2009 12:28 AM | Reply

I viewed this picture its freaking beautiful I like how in the lower hemisphere you can see the actually height of the clouds.
P.S. My name is a link to my youtube channel I have videos of the Apollo LROC images .. I found a few things the brainiacs at NASA didn't fined :D

Dennis Chesters | July 30, 2009 3:06 PM | Reply

Keith's update links to a 4 km (one-quarter) resolution GOES-14 image labeled "full size".
There is a 1 km resolution image posted at http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goes/090727_GOES14_firstvis_big.jpg

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