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[CHOICE] GOES satellites — orbit, instrument, example use.
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**GOES** = Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. NOAA's weather satellites. They sit way up high, **parked over the equator**, orbiting at exactly Earth's rotation rate — so they appear *stationary* over one hemisphere all day. That continuous stare is what makes them perfect for **weather**: hurricane tracking, severe storms, wildfires, fog, lightning. The newest generation (GOES-R series) takes a full-disk image every 10 minutes. Spatial resolution is coarse (~½ km to 2 km), but you get *time* in exchange.
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NOAA weather satellite series. **Geostationary orbit** ~36 000 km above the equator — continuously images the same hemisphere. Current instrument: **ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager)** — 16 bands, full-disk every 10 min, CONUS every 5 min. Used for hurricane tracking, wildfires, fog, storm prediction.
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