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Since #EarthDay is next week, we wanted to share this very special painting for #FullDiskFriday.
Commissioned in 1954 by Dr. Harry Wexler, a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, it imagined what a satellite might "see” from orbit—before the first one was ever launched.
On Sept. 14, 2020, the #GOESEast satellite zoomed in on Hurricanes #Sally, near the Gulf Coast, and #Paulette, over the Atlantic. We can also see a blanket of hazy gray smoke from western #wildfires drifting over most of the country.