Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES) are a series of geosynchronous satellites operated by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The GOES system provides us with solar imagery, magnetometer data, solar X-ray data and data on high energy solar protons at Earth. Below you will find solar imagery at a multitude of wavelengths from a number of different GOES missions.
GOES-16
SUVI 094
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SUVI 131
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SUVI 171
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SUVI 195
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SUVI 284
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SUVI 304
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Thematic map
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GOES-18
SUVI 094
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SUVI 131
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SUVI 171
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SUVI 195
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SUVI 284
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SUVI 304
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Thematic map
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Courtesy of the GOES system (NOAA)
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