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Himawari-9, True colour: the full disc of Earth, taken Nov 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM UTC

Himawari-9, AHI

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What the eye would see from orbit, by daylight alone: the night side is black, with nothing blended in.

The observer

Satellite
Himawari-9
Kind
Earth-watching satellite
Instrument
AHI, the Advanced Himawari Imager: JMA's imager on Himawari-8 and 9, a near twin of the ABI, which scans the full disc in 16 channels every 10 minutes.
Scene
The full disc as seen from 140.7° E, 35,786 km above the equator.
Drawn to scale, as from above the North Pole: the Earth's outline is the equator, with Himawari-9's post over it at 140.7° E and the arc of it the disc spans, from 59.4° E to 138° W.

Image: Japan Meteorological Agency, source: the Agency's website, under its terms of use.

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