Weather satellite gives Minnesotans a new view of home from the other side of the clouds
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Last December, GOES-16 joined NASA and NOAA's newest series of geostationary weather satellites, also referred to as GOES-R, which help meteorologists observe and predict weather events.
The GOES-R program currently consists of three satellites, of them only GOES-16, also known as GOES-East, observes Earth's Western Hemisphere.
NOAA provides updated time-lapse views of both the United States, and the upper Mississippi Valley, where Minnesota is visible, every five minutes.
According to NASA, the lifetime of the GOES-R series of satellites extends through December 2036.
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