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GOES-19, Natural colour: the full disc of Earth, taken Nov 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM UTC

GOES-19, ABI

Natural colour

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Natural colour by day. At night, infrared clouds are blended over a fixed backdrop of city lights, so the night side is not what the satellite saw at that instant.

The observer

Satellite
GOES-19
Kind
Earth-watching satellite
Instrument
ABI, the Advanced Baseline Imager: NOAA's imager on the GOES satellites, which scans the full disc in 16 channels, from visible light to the thermal infrared, every 10 minutes.
Scene
The full disc as seen from 75.2° W, 35,786 km above the equator.
Drawn to scale, as from above the North Pole: the Earth's outline is the equator, with GOES-19's post over it at 75.2° W and the arc of it the disc spans, from 156.5° W to 6.1° E.

Image: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, public domain.

Full-resolution original (10,848 px) from the provider

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