21 March 2016
Posted by Dan Satterfield
GOES image from Sunday. Notice the terminator is vertical with sun at both of the Poles.
Below is the view from the new Japanese weather satellite Himawari. The Himawari can send back true colour images.
Below is the image from the Meteosat at the Solstice on Dec. 21st of 2015. Notice the 23.5 degree tilt to the terminator.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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