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Meteosat-12, Natural colour: the full disc of Earth, taken Nov 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM UTC

Meteosat-12, FCI

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
Meteosat-12
Kind
Earth-watching satellite
Instrument
FCI, the Flexible Combined Imager: the imager of Meteosat Third Generation, which scans the full disc in 16 channels every 10 minutes, with the blue and green the Meteosat before it lacked.
Scene
The full disc as seen from 0° E, 35,786 km above the equator.
Drawn to scale, as from above the North Pole: the Earth's outline is the equator, with Meteosat-12's post over it at 0° E and the arc of it the disc spans, from 81.3° W to 81.3° E.

Image: EUMETSAT, under EUMETSAT's data policy.

Full-resolution original (3,616 px) from the provider

About these images

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This site last read the provider's list of images on Nov 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM UTC.

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