Dust or smoke over the Yucatan Peninsula.

Hurricane Gladys as seen from Apollo 7 in its 99th revolution of the Earth. Photographed from an altitude of 99 nautical miles.

ATS-3 full disc image. Forerunner of GOES satellite system.

Water vapor imagery as seen from GOES.

GOES water vapor imagery over United States.

GOES water vapor imagery over United States and much of western hemisphere.

SMS-II full disc infrared image showing parade of tropical storms marching to the west across the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Ship contrails off the California coast are visible on the right margin. Cloud streets trending NE-SW off Baja California and southern California.

Large cyclone south of the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific Ocean.

Low pressure center over the northeast Pacific Ocean.

A large extratropical cyclone in the northeast Pacific approaching the U.S. northwest coast. Ship contrails are apparent off the coast of California.

Satellite view of cloud pattern. Location and date unknown.

Strong frontal system off the United States East Coast.

Frontal system extending from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast.

Large thunderstorms probably over the Central United States plains.

Two large storms in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

A view of Earth from space as envisioned in L'Atmosphere by Camille Flammarion, 1872.

An image of a cloud covered United States as well as much of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Perhaps this image is on the same day but a different pass than image spac0422. Note a somewhat distorted full moon in this image.

Cloud cover in the Caribbean sea and to the north of Cuba. Cuba is plainly visible in the middle to center right as is the Yucatan Peninsula to the west.

Hurricane Andrew GOES 7 imagery on top of image with a simulated increase in resolution as predicted following the launch of GOES I.

A remarkable image of two frontal systems converging south of the Aleutian Islands. This image is convincing testimony as to why the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea are known as the "The Home of the Winds."

Looking down on cloud streets and a honeycomb pattern in cumulus. Area unknown.

A very strange assemblage of clouds as seen from satellite. Date and location unknown.

A vortex and frontal band in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A remarkable vortex south of Greenland with trailing front and cloud streets to the south. The trailing front appears to have waves along it to the NW.

The Florida Peninsula with Lake Okeechobee. Huge thunderstorm complexes with tops blowing to the west are seen in the Bahama Islands.

Wave pattern in clouds south of Cape Cod.

A very sharp frontal system extending from Cape Cod to the Gulf of Mexico.

False gray scale temperature deriving heights of cloud tops. The black areas off Georgia are probably large thunderstorm complexes. A large comma shaped storm with associated frontal system covers much of the mid-section of the USA. Probably a then experimental project.

Smoke from Wyoming forest fires is trailing southeast after passing over the Mid-Atlantic States.

Wyoming forest fires. A frontal system with well-developed thunderstorms is seen over Nebraska.

Strong tropical wave over the Cape Verde Islands. This is probably an image from and early TIROS satellite.

Super Typhoon Oscar SE of Japan near peak intensity.

Super Typhoon Kent ENE of Luzon and threatening Taiwan. Ultimately it made landfall in China.

Snow pack on the Sierra Nevada of California. NOAA-3 imagery.

GOES imagery of Hurricane Hugo passing over U.S. Virgin Islands.

GOES image of tropical wave in Caribbean and Tropical Storm Hugo in the Atlantic.

Super Typhoon Ward south of Japan. Fortunately it recurved to the east before striking any Japanese island.

Ship tracks? Aircraft tracks? as seen from satellite? Note there are two objects in the image - middle left apparently traveling to W (left). Center upper right object is traveling to SE (assuming image is oriented to N).

Satellite infrared view of Hurricane Andrew making landfall south of Miami.

Satellite infrared view of Hurricane Andrew after it had crossed over the Florida Peninsula and entered the Gulf of Mexico.

Weather patterns, ice cover, the Aleutian Islands, and western Alaska.

Weather patterns, ice cover, the Aleutian Islands, and western Alaska. Image

Products of the NOAA/Navy Joint Ice Center in 1982. The center has evolved into the National Ice Center.

Infrared imagery of Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico

Infrared imagery of Gulf Stream off the Virginia Capes

Sea surface temperature anomalies from March to August 1997 showing evolution of major El Nino.

Water vapor imagery over western United States from GOES

Satellite launch

Satellite launch