Solar Eclipse 2024: High-res Orbital View | NOAA GOES-East Weather Satellite

Solar Eclipse 2024: High-res Orbital View | NOAA GOES-East Weather Satellite

NOAA’s GOES-East weather satellite had a front row seat and unique view of the 2024 solar eclipse, sending back data and imagery every five minutes as the path of totality spanned across North America.

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This is a series of high-res images from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) capturing the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Fifty-five images stitched together (with transitions) beginning at 16:10 UTC and ending at 20:35 UTC. 

The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison SSEC tracked the eclipse in near real-time using GOES-East Advanced Baseline Imager and Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument to view of the Earth as well as the Sun behind it: 

The GOES-East and GOES-West satellites provide continuous observation of the atmosphere and weather from Hawaii to Eastern Canada. These images were captured by the Advanced Baseline Imager instrument aboard GOES-East, sending images back to Earth every 5 minutes.

GOES-EAST is the first of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).    

Credit: SSEC/CIMSS

Duration: 16 seconds

Capture Date: April 8, 2024

Release Date: April 9, 2024

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