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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by inamberclad on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:51AM (#17212950)
Unfortunately, the cooling system on this instrument isn't working as expected. We've got the visible spectrum, but not some of the long infrared wavelengths.
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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by raverbashing on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:15AM (#17213038)
I wonder if this can be mitigated with software processing

Still, I wonder what kind of information can be gathered by long infrared here. Heat reflection/balance on the Earth? Climate Change related info?

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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by SiempreViernes on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:39AM (#17213119)
Most of the goes-17 bands are in the ir, 14 out of 16, and their nicknames in this table gives some clue as to their use: https://www.goes-r.gov/education/ABI-bands-quick-info.html
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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by raverbashing on Saturday June 02, 2018 @03:14AM (#17213223)
That's very informative, thanks!
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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by growlist on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:02AM (#17213612)
How long until satellites have their own service droids I wonder?
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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by jimnotgym on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:30AM (#17214272)
It seems amazing to me that cooling is an issue in space!
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Re:GOES-17 Releases ‘First Light’ Imagery from Its Advanced ... by netcraft on Saturday June 02, 2018 @09:49AM (#17214576)
because space is a vacuum its actually really hard to cool things in space - there is no heat energy so it is cold, but there is no air for your generated heat to dissipate into.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/72179/cooling-do...

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