The Images Coming From NOAA's New Weather Satellite Are Stunning

Crisp images coming from the newest addition to NOAA's family of weather-observing satellites are a stunning example of the beauty of our world and how far technology has advanced over the past couple of decades. The federal agency launched the 16th member of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) line of satellites in November 2016, and we started getting regular images from the new satellite earlier this year. Two of the most noticeable differences between GOES-16 and its predecessors is how much clearer the pictures are and how much faster we get them compared to the satellites in operational use now. More

(Source: Forbes - Apr 2)