A complete timelapse animation of Hurricane Sandy from October 23-31, as seen by GOES-13 (a geosynchronous satellite that is in orbit nearly 36,000 km (23,000 miles) above Earth).Another timelapse animation from GOES-EAST (GOES-13) shows the full disk and the
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) on Sept. 24 said it has moved a spare geostationary weather satellite, GOES-14, into position to replace the GOES-13 satellite that suffered an unexplained outage Sept. 23 that engineers have been unable to
Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab report elevated levels of energetic electrons around Earth. ("GOES 13 > 0.8 MeV integral electron flux is above 105 pfu.")This is caused by the high-speed solar stream now blowing around our planet. Spacecraft wit
