Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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On May 11, 2022, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-18 satellite. The satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument captured these images on May 5.

GOES-18, NOAA’s newest geostationary satellite, launched on March 1. The ABI views Earth with sixteen different channels, each measuring energy at different wavelengths along the electromagnetic spectrum to obtain information about Earth’s atmosphere, land, and ocean.

Learn more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/earth-orbit-noaa-debuts-first-imagery-goes-18

*GOES-18 preliminary, non-operational data.*

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Video Credits:
NOAA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA
CIMSS

Music:
“Soaring High,” by Andrew Hamilton [PRS] & Matthew Winch [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd.; Universal Production Music