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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Forty years of weather observations and a lasting climate record
Explore the original Meteosat program through operational continuity, scanning and spectral channels, changing regional coverage, spacecraft retirement and preserved climate evidence.
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Cyclone Gista observed by Meteosat-2’s MVIRI on February 23, 1986, at 12:00 UTC. This grayscale observation shows weather structure, not the spacecraft. Display image resized and compressed.
EUMETSAT, Meteosat-2 MVIRI · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
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Follow air, water, and energy through a changing system
From repeated cloud views to global forecast inputs
Meteosat First Generation
Forty years of weather observations and a lasting climate record
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