At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.
Satellite cloud cover loop.
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These meteorological satellites however see more than clouds and cloud systems.
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During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space.
Below is a depiction of the orbit of a polar orbiting satellite.
Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night.
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A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the earth.
The visible satellite imagery is essentially a snapshot of what the satellite sees unlike infrared ir satellite imagery which depicts the temperature of the clouds.