The first images from the new weather satellite just arrived, and they're absolutely incredible

[bananas]

Source: Washington Post

The satellite formerly known as GOES-R (so Prince, right?) has transmitted its first images back to Earth, and they are flooring. From the details on the face of the moon to the incredible resolution of cumulus over the Caribbean, these first pixels portend a sunny future for NOAA’s new GOES-16 satellite.

Meteorologists are drooling. This release coincides with the first day of the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting. There are thousands of weather geeks in Seattle this week, and — at least on Monday — they’re all looking at this next-gen satellite imagery.

<snip>

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/01/23/the-first-images-from-goes-r-have-come-in-and-theyre-absolutely-incredible/?tid=pm_local_pop

[bananas]

1. Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational weather satellite

http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/witness-the-firepower-of-this-fully-armed-and-operational-weather-satellite/

Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational weather satellite

OK, it's not fully operational yet, but the early returns are promising.

ERIC BERGER - 1/23/2017, 7:50 AM

In November, the most expensive and advanced weather satellite ever built in the United States launched, and it then spent several weeks reaching a geosynchronous orbit nearly 36,000km from Earth. After some initial diagnostics, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration turned the GOES-16 satellite (GOES stands for "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite&quot on and began taking photos of Earth.

On Monday, the agency released the first images taken by GOES-16—and do they ever deliver the goods. "These images come from the most sophisticated technology ever flown in space to predict severe weather on Earth," said Stephen Volz, director of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. "The fantastically rich images provide us with our first glimpse of the impact GOES-16 will have on developing life-saving forecasts.” The satellite will continue to undergo testing during the next several months before becoming full operational in November.

<snip>

[AllaN01Bear]

2. wowow

flat earther says the whole thing is fake .

[procon]

3. Dang! Blocked by paywall? Here's the direct link to images at NASA.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/new-weather-satellite-sends-first-images-of-earth

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Trump will be cutting this shortly

Department of Commerce (which is the parent for NOAA and the NWS) is on the chopping block. But here are some pics -





Comparison between the new satellite (left) and an older one for close to the same view (right) -

[DK504]

5. Remarkable, completely breath taking.

The clarity is stunning.

One point I have is, is it me or wasn't the earth a lot greener 30 years ago? With these satellites being so precise we can see the exact hot spots we need to get to immediately.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Um ... I see color on the left, B/W on the right ...

Keep in mind that older cameras probably used filters to create compostie color images, and 'false color' was often used to accentuate certain features.

[RazzleCat]

6. so nifty. I went and watched that launch and was nifty too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Wonderful work by NASA and scientists. But the comments at the page are bizarre:

A representative selection follows:

Nacho Sanchez
9:45 PM EST
Another article trying to instill the heliocentric model of the EARTH to the masses .There are no such things as satellites, merely high altitude weather balloons. The Earth is not round like these FAKE CGI NASA photos, even NASA officially says photos of Earth from space are photoshopped. Look it up.

Lee Beacham
9:27 PM EST
We can't know much about the weather. Hence, we don't do anything about it. Nor should we. Air pollution is one thing but carbon dioxide? Get real. It's beneficial and self regulating.

rollfair
8:54 PM EST
Of course, they are fake because they were created by scientist who constantly try to prove what the bible says is wrong. Man has never been on the moon, the earth is a bit over 5000 years old and of course, the world will end soon, maybe. Science is the enemy of religion and the sooner god fearing people figure that out the better the world will be, maybe

Kevin Squiers
8:16 PM EST
More fake pics from the biggest liers, NOAA, NASA.

Allan Crawfoed
4:33 PM EST
Global warming is Globalism not science and those Earth pics are CGI. There is too much cloud cover. I watch ground based radar of the US cloud cover every single day and we never have anywhere near that much cloud cover as those supposed satellite pics show. This is just more bs from nasa. We have let them lie to us too much and too long. When ever nasa says data is automatically calculated that means they forged the data. When they show us Earth from space there are never any stars. When they show us satellites in space they show us CGI artwork.

SpokaneJim
3:27 PM EST
Does this satellite automatically adjust temperature readings to prove global warming, or does that still have to be done manually?

James Reneau
2:52 PM EST
This is from NASA... So it is computer generated, never reality... It was produced by a pencil-necked computer graphics person in a cubicle. Which is why it also looks more like a computer game and not real.... NASA has not done anything real in 20 years....

... A.j. Miskiewicz
... 3:15 PM EST
... You are so right. All that Pluto stuff last year was so fake it was embarrassing! NASA isn't even a real government agency anymore, they haven't been since the mid '90s. Everything you see that says NASA on it from this millennium is 100% fake.

...... Rik Mik
...... 3:20 PM EST
...... Not much time for space the last 8 years, as O had them doing "muslim outreach" whatever the heck that was...

Mike Lenowsky
2:19 PM EST
After reading the comments out here it's really apparent how Trump won. The level of straight up stupid people across the country is scary. It's easy to see how so many folks are sorely lacking in education and will believe any number of ridiculous alternative facts and claims that are total falsehoods. Unbelievable...people out here sound like a bunch of brain washed fools!! The earth is flat? LmFao Sure keep listening to Sean Spicer and every lie that dumps out of Trump's crap filled mouth into Sean Spicers' ears. This has nothing to do with the satellite I realize but it ties in with the unreal beliefs of the uneducated wack jobs that troll postings nationwide. We are truly a nation half filled with babbling idiots!

[MindPilot]

9. Reading through those comments...I think they are just lacking the little "sarcasm" tag

They must just be trolling, right. Nobody, but nobody can really be that stupid...I mean they are using a computer and the Internet, so that really couldn't work without satellites...that is as obvious as the nose on your face.

I refuse to accept that these comments are representative of what people actually think and believe.

[logosoco]

10. I think I am going to tell myself this, too.

Just for peace of mind.

If someone really did think these things they would not be able to write in full sentences.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Perhaps, but many are serious. They layer "climate hoax" on top of "fake moon landings".

It's amazing what these people believe and how invested they get into their beliefs.

http://nasascam.atspace.co.uk/

http://www.nasamoonhoax.com/

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/626119/MOON-LANDINGS-FAKE-Shock-video-Stanley-Kubrick-admit-historic-event-HOAX-NASA

A paper that investigates the conspiracy nuts psychology: free market partisanship correlates with conspiracy beliefs:

NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax

An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science

Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer, Gilles E. Gignac

First Published March 26, 2013

Abstract

Although nearly all domain experts agree that carbon dioxide emissions are altering the world’s climate, segments of the public remain unconvinced by the scientific evidence. Internet blogs have become a platform for denial of climate change, and bloggers have taken a prominent role in questioning climate science. We report a survey of climate-blog visitors to identify the variables underlying acceptance and rejection of climate science. Our findings parallel those of previous work and show that endorsement of free-market economics predicted rejection of climate science. Endorsement of free markets also predicted the rejection of other established scientific findings, such as the facts that HIV causes AIDS and that smoking causes lung cancer. We additionally show that, above and beyond endorsement of free markets, endorsement of a cluster of conspiracy theories (e.g., that the Federal Bureau of Investigation killed Martin Luther King, Jr.) predicted rejection of climate science as well as other scientific findings. Our results provide empirical support for previous suggestions that conspiratorial thinking contributes to the rejection of science. Acceptance of science, by contrast, was strongly associated with the perception of a consensus among scientists.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797612457686

Exposing Media Fakery:
http://www.cluesforum.info/viewforum.php?f=16
Apollo and more Space Hoaxes:
http://www.cluesforum.info/viewforum.php?f=23

http://www.globalclimatescam.com/

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Either the alt-reality croud, or a parody of them, or some of both. n/t