GOES-15 Opens Its 'Eyes' and Sees First Image of Earth
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 16:14
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- From approximately 22,236 miles in space, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - GOES-15 - took its first full-disk visible image of the Earth on April 6 starting at 17:33 UTC (1:33 p.m. EDT).