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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an image, taken by the GOES-16 satellite, showing a heavy layer of smoke from forest fires in the Amazon region covering parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Satellite data analysed by Brazil’s space research agency has registered 3.46 lakh fire hotspots so far this year in all 13 countries of South America
GOES-16 satellite
Launch Date: November 19, 2016
Launch Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, U.S.A.
Designed Life: November 19, 2026
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V 541 expendable launch vehicle (ELV)
Altitude:Distance from sea level. 35800 km
Origination: NASA/NOAA
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) is the next generation of geostationary weather satellites.
There are four satellites in the series: GOES-R, GOES-S, GOES-T, and GOES-U
The first in the series, GOES-R was renamed GOES-16.
GOES-16 has provided continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, total lightning data, and space weather monitoring, providing critical atmospheric, hydrologic, oceanic, climatic, solar and space data.
GOES-16 started drifting to the GOES-East position at 75.2°W and completed the move on December 11, 2017, and began nominal operations as GOES-East on December 18, 2017
The GOES-16 (now GOES-East) instrument suite consists of Earth sensing, solar imaging, and space environment measurement payloads.
There are six primary instruments:
the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI);
the Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS),
the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM);
the Magnetometer (MAG);
the Space Environment In-Situ Suite (SEISS),
the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI).
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