the GOES-16 satellite captured the Moon's shadow as it crossed into North America, passed over Texas and headed northeast before coming to an end over the North Atlantic Ocean. Unable to view our ...

As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth. Due to the rotation of the earth the satellite is able to view every spot on earth twice each day.

Those Alaskans, working for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, were the first North American scientists to see the satellite, which was the size and shape of a ...

the GOES-16 satellite captured the Moon's shadow as it crossed into North America, passed over Texas and headed northeast before coming to an end over the North Atlantic Ocean. Unable to view our ...