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Satellite Images

Last Update August 18th, 1999


The Meteosat Satellites (now number 7) is placed stationary compared to the Earth, so they are looking on the same area all the time. The NOAA Satellites are orbiting the Earth, and they are passing various areas. But they are closer to Earth, so they can make some pretty closeup images of the weather of the Earth.

The two most important categories of images is those which are taken with infrared light (IR) and those which are taken with visible light (VIS).
On the infrared images is the light areas the coldest areas (normally clouds), and the dark areas (land or sea) is the warmest areas. The images are independent of daylight so they are used to make continous satellite movies (including those in television weather forecasts).
The visible images show the same as You would see with Your eyes if You were inside the satellite, so the visible images is mainly used in daylight hours.
Read more about Meteosat here.

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