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Image of the week: viewing of the Earth from 36,000km

 

Watching our Earth from space

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This week’s image of the week shows two views of the Earth from our Meteosat-10 satellite over Europe and Africa, and from Meteosat-9 over the Indian Ocean.

Last Updated

14 November 2024

Published on

08 July 2024

The Meteosat weather satellites are in geostationary orbit 36,000km above the Earth, from where they provide imagery for the early detection of fast-developing severe weather, weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

A livestream from these satellites is available on our Earthview page.

Twin views of the Earth

The images are from the SEVIRI instruments onboard the Meteosat-10 and Meteosat-9 satellites. 

EUMETSAT operates three satellites from the Meteosat Second Generation, Meteosat-9, -10 and -11 and one Meteosat Third Generation satellite, MTG-I1.

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EUMETSAT's Meteosat satellites

Access weather data via the EUMETSAT user portal

Visualise weather data with EUMETView

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Meteosat Natural Colour Enhanced, 2024-07-08 07:00:00 UTC - Download image.