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Earth Science

A Press Release About An Image You Can't See

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 28, 2009

NASA and NOAA’s GOES-14 Satellite Takes First Full Disk Image
“The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-14, provided its first visible full disk image of Earth on July 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earths surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a distance of seven football fields.”
Keith’s note: This press release – a release that announces an image – contains five web addresses that readers are supposed to visit. At the time I am posting this, none of those 5 web addresses has the image that this press release is announcing. So …. why issue the release?
Keith’s update: According to NASA PAO someone had a web problem. The image is now online here.

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