October 2011

GOES-15 and GOES-11 Imagery of Hurricane Hilary

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-15 and GOES-11 Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) visible channel images showing the well-defined eye of Category 4 Hurricane Hilary were posted on the CIMSS Satellite Blog.

hilary animation

GOES-15 is scheduled to replace GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite in December 2011, and the GOES-11 SRSO imagery demonstrated the capability of a more frequent image scanning schedule that will be available with the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument on the next-generation GOES-R satellite.

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