Earth had itself a solar day yesterday . Chile and Argentina got a prime feel at atotal solar eclipsewhile the Pacific Ocean played host to Hurricane Barbara , the strongest violent storm on Earth at the bit .
It ’s a treble feature film eclipsecane nobody on the ground would have any hope of capturing in a Clarence Day , but satellite in geostationary satellites hovering roughly 22,300 miles from Earth ’s control surface had a front row seat . Meteorologist and orbiter lover Dakota Smith first lend attention to the amazing images two satellite belonging to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) captured on Tuesday morning .
The first is GOES-17 , which glance over the Pacific Ocean and western half of North America for storms . On Tuesday , it capture the shadow of the moon sliding across the sea and over South America as it devolve between the Earth and sun . The view is , in some way , less impressive than what viewer on the soil in South America were treated to as the sun blacked out . But GOES-17 had one vantage of also including Hurricane Barbara in its view .
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A major hurricane .
A total solar eclipse .
Earth is breathtaking.pic.twitter.com/U1rnfvczUt
— Dakota Smith ( @weatherdak)July 2 , 2019
The violent storm is the first major hurricane in the easterly Pacific this year . As of Wednesday , it had winds of 155 miles per hour , placing it just a ghost below class 5 strength . The good news is it does n’t place any threat to land so gape it is mediocre plot , especially as the lunar month ’s dark scurries across Earth ’s surface .
GOES-16 , NOAA ’s satellite for monitoring easterly North America , South America , and the Atlantic Ocean , also catch the eclipse as it neared “ landfall ” in Chile . Though the orbiter is used for monitoring hurricanes in the Atlantic , it still superintend to capture Barbara in the far unexpended box of its view . Bonus points for the amazing swirl of cloud at the top of the figure of speech cruising over northern Canada .
So coolheaded ! The shadow of the Moon was captured on@NOAASatellitesGOES-16 trope as it raced across the southern Pacific toward Chile , seen here using data compiled by@CollegeDuPage ’s weather sitehttps://t.co/162zb8xQBC(ht@weatherdak)#wx#EclipseSolar2019pic.twitter.com/BuctR8oOke
— Jason Major ( @JPMajor)July 2 , 2019
The whole episode is a reminder of the wonders of science and applied science . man can determine when and where eclipses will occur , forecast hurricane , and put freaking satellites into blank space that serve us keep an eye on all this stuff in real clock time . Also , Earth is a really coolheaded satellite and we ’re prosperous to call it home . Tuesday was a near reminder of all those things , rolled up into one awing package .
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