What the World’s Most Badass Weather Satellite Can Do
Over the weekend, NASA and NOAA launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R), the United States’ most advanced weather satellite yet, to study extreme storms, tornadoes, fires, lightning, and solar activity at unparalleled resolution. GOES-R is on its way to a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth. In two weeks, it’ll reach its destination,…
