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![Von Kármán Vortex off the Southern California Coast](/s3/migrated/2185v1_20180201-sanclemente.jpg)
A spiral cloud appears just off the southern California coast in this image seen by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS…
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![U.S. Coast from GOES East; New GOES West Next](/s3/migrated/20180227-EC.png)
Since its launch, NOAA’s GOES East (GOES-16) satellite has demonstrated its critical capability for keeping our nation…
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![GOES-East Watches Line of Supercell Thunderstorms Over Nebraska](/s3/migrated/20200503_nestorms-resized.gif)
From the evening of May 3 into the early morning of May 4, 2020, the GOES-East satellite used a combination of its visible…
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False color satellite imagery shows wave clouds and red snow on the ground.
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Water vapor imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite viewed an atmospheric wave pattern brought on by a digging trough the…
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![Desert Winds Blow Dust Plume Over Southwestern Argentina](/s3/migrated/dustargentina.gif)
GOES East satellite see a dust storm blow from the northern coast of Mari Menuco Lake, Argentina,
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![“Gorilla” Hail Storm Batters Texas](/s3/migrated/hailstorm41321logo-12.gif)
The GOES East satellite, on the evening of April 12, 2021, viewed a supercell thunderstorm bubble up in central Texas, part…
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![Von Kármán Clouds Flow Off of Mexico’s Coast](/s3/2021-06/vonkarmaniodimagery2.gif)
GOES East viewed von Kármán clouds flowing around Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.
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![GOES East Focuses on Dual Storm Systems](/s3/migrated/20191011-2systems.jpg)
GOES East captured this awe-inspiring view of two large storm systems over North America on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. To the…
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![Exciting Imagery Available from the NEW GOES East!](/s3/2021-08/fulldiskgoesr_0.jpg)
Now in its new GOES East position, the advanced GOES-16 satellite has officially joined NOAA’s operational observation…
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![Severe Thunderstorms Erupt Over Western Kansas](/s3/2021-07/Severe_Thunderstorms_Erupt_Over_Western_Kansas_NESDIS_05_25_2021%20%281%29.gif)
GOES East satellite’s visible channel watched the anvil-shaped cloud tops of severe thunderstorms bubble up over western…
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![Minnesota’s Greenwood Fire Doubles in Size](/s3/2021-08/20210824_greenwoodfirev2.gif)
NOAA’s GOES East satellite had its eye on Minnesota’s Greenwood Fire on August 23, as the wildfire nearly doubled in size.
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![GOES Team honored with Gears of Government Award](/s3/migrated/GOESRSeriesArtistsRendering.jpg)
Pam Sullivan, Dan Lindsey, Harry Cikanek, Joseph Pica, and Vanessa Griffin used a coordinated approach with innovative…
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![GOES East Sees Storms Erupt Along Texas Dry Line](/s3/migrated/20210503000000_txdryline.gif)
GOES East captured amazing visible imagery of large thunderstorms as they erupted over Texas. The Geostationary Lightning…
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![Currently Flying](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
NOAA owns 10 satellites, which includes 4 geostationary (GOES-14, -16, -17, and -18), 5 polar-orbiting (NOAA-15, -18, -19, -…