It ’s Christmas sunup , and you believably have the day off — but NASA satellites are still hard at piece of work ; this just - released persona gives a view of the major planet ’s weather this forenoon as it was seen by the Agency ’s go East satellite .
Cosmic Log ’s Alan Boyle explains :
The GOES orbiter , East and West , are in geostationary orbit 22,300 geographical mile above Earth . That allows them to supervise a whole cerebral hemisphere ’s weather 24/7 from a fixed position above the the planet . ( GOES stand forGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite . ) NASA takes the GOES satellite ’ readings on cloud cover and overlays them on a full - disk “ Blue Planet ” view of the ocean and commonwealth masses . The answer is a hemisphere - wide snapshot of Earth like this one , create every three hour .
Pretty picturesque , as always . Although that major storm scheme — shown here churn its way of life across the U.S. — could be a serious trouble for vacation travelersthroughout the body politic ’s central , southerly , and northeast regions in the day ahead .
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