Earth observation
Satellite imagery explorer
Recent observationReal imagery streamed from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services, overlaid with the same earthquake and storm data used elsewhere on Prakruti. Every frame states its satellite, instrument, resolution and observation time.
GOES-East clean infrared (10-minute)
Band 13 brightness temperature. Cold, bright tops mark deep convection, which is how storm structure is read at night as well as by day.
- Satellite
- GOES-16 (GOES-East)
- Instrument
- ABI
- Spatial resolution
- 2 km at nadir
- Coverage
- Americas and the Atlantic, from about 75°W
- Typical latency
- Roughly 30-60 minutes
- Frame shown
- resolving…
- How live
- checking the source…
Source: NASA Worldview / GIBS (EOSDIS) · tiles are streamed from NASA on request and are not re-hosted
The frame shown is the most recent one NASA has published, which lags real time by roughly the latency above. A blank area is normal: a geostationary satellite sees only its own hemisphere, and the daily mosaics cover only the sunlit part of each orbit.
Available layers
| Layer | Satellite / instrument | Resolution | Cadence | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Marble shaded relief and bathymetry | Composite (MODIS-derived) · MODIS / SRTM30_PLUS bathymetry | ~500 m at the equator | Fixed reference | Not applicable — fixed reference imagery |
| VIIRS true colour (daily) | Suomi NPP · VIIRS | 250 m | Daily | About 3 hours after observation |
| MODIS Terra true colour (daily) | Terra · MODIS | 250 m | Daily | About 3 hours after observation |
| GOES-East clean infrared (10-minute) | GOES-16 (GOES-East) · ABI | 2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| GOES-West clean infrared (10-minute) | GOES-18 (GOES-West) · ABI | 2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| Himawari clean infrared (10-minute) | Himawari-9 · AHI | 2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| GOES-East GeoColor (10-minute) | GOES-19 (GOES-East) · ABI, multi-band composite | 1-2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| GOES-West GeoColor (10-minute) | GOES-18 (GOES-West) · ABI, multi-band composite | 1-2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| GOES-East visible, 1 km (10-minute) | GOES-19 (GOES-East) · ABI band 2 | 1 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| Himawari visible, 1 km (10-minute) | Himawari-9 · AHI band 3 | 1 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| GOES-East air mass (10-minute) | GOES-19 (GOES-East) · ABI, water vapour + infrared composite | 2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
| Himawari air mass (10-minute) | Himawari-9 · AHI, water vapour + infrared composite | 2 km at nadir | Every 10 min | Roughly 30-60 minutes |
Imagery courtesy of NASA Worldview / GIBS, part of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
What satellite imagery can and cannot show. Infrared imagery shows cloud-top temperature, which is how a forecaster reads a storm's structure and intensity trend. It shows nothing about earthquakes. No satellite image has ever been shown to indicate that an earthquake is imminent, and Prakruti makes no such claim about any frame displayed here.
Not yet integrated. Sentinel-1 radar, Sentinel-2 optical and InSAR ground-deformation products would let Prakruti show before-and-after imagery of an earthquake's surface effects. Those require authenticated access to the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem and per-event scene selection, and are not implemented. They are listed here as absent rather than hinted at as present.