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GOES-12 Observes the Fourth Largest Solar Flare
GOES-12 SXI captures one of the largest solar flares on record.
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Katrina's Progression Seen by GOES
Track Hurricane Katrina's path from August 24 - August 29, 2005.
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GOES: Keeping Watch From Above
Like guardian angels, the GOES spacecraft keep a constant vigil over us.
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Up, Up and Away
Weather forecasting has taken to the skies thanks to the NASA/NOAA partnership.
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Our New Eye in the Sky: GOES-N
This summer, NASA and NOAA will launch the next in a series of sophisticated weather-watching satellites - GOES-N.
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GOES Expands Its View and Sneaks a Peak at the Sun
GOES-N will carry the new and improved Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) for monitoring weather on the sun. The following images were taken by the SXI test-flown on GOES-12. The first clip shows Venus transiting the sun on June 8, 2004, and then we see the full disk of the Sun in x-rays in October 2001.
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GOES Sits Tight Above the Active Earth Below
Upon arriving at geosynchronous orbit, the GOES-N satellite will be parked in storage, waiting its turn as one of two operating GOES satellites - GOES-East and GOES-West. The following animations show the GOES I-M series in geostationary orbit.
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GOES Tracks Frances
Track Hurricane Frances' path from August 31, 2004 - September 7, 2004.
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Los Alamos Fires
GOES-10 images illustrate the affect of severe winds on the Los Alamos fires as smoke plumes spread eastward across New Mexico and into Northern Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
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Weather Watching GOES Back in Time
Starting in the 1950s, experiments with rockets and satellites allowed us to view our planet from above – forever changing our ability to forecast weather. This historical montage takes us from the earliest missions, Nimbus and TIROS, to the beginnings of the GOES program in 1974 and on to our current weather forecasting workhorses, GOES I-M.
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 "GOES-N Decal")
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 "Venus Transit")
 "GOES Coverage Area")
 "Hurricane Frances")
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