24 December 2014
The Earth From Space on Christmas Eve
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Here are some full disk satellite images from around the world on this Christmas Eve. This is an IR image from GOES East.
From the GOES (NOAA)
This is a visible light image from the European Meteosat, in almost true color.
Visible light image from Meteosat VISSIR over India:
and the latest IR image from the GOES West Satellite- Courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center here in Maryland.
Happy Holidays to you wherever you are on our small spinning fragment of solar driftwood!
I always like to watch Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot on this day.
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.