Looking for real-time satellite imagery? NOAA's advanced satellites provide constant monitoring of global weather events around the world 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The GOES East and West satellites provide frequently updated visible and infrared images of the U.S. territories every 30 minutes, while the Suomi NPP satellite provides highly detailed images of the planet every day. This colorized infrared imagery, showing the last three days of weather over the United States, is just one e

The NOAA 20 satellite, through the JPSS Program, orbits the Earth at its poles 14 times a day and provides full global coverage twice daily. The imagery swaths are then stitched together at NOAA processing centers so that meteorologists see global weather patterns (here, you see Antarctica). | NOAA Satellite and Information Service