The satellite was launched in December to showcase weather conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic.
The first images from Europe’s newest weather satellite, called MTG-I1, have been released. Launched to showcase weather conditions over Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic, the satellite has sent back images with an extraordinary level of detail.
MTG-I1 was launched in December last year from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, and is part of a series of satellite launches in the Meteosat Third Generation satellite system.The images captured by the satellite’s imager show clouds over Northern and Western Europe and Scandinavia regions, with clearer skies above Italy and Western Balkans.
Orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, MTG-I1 will be in orbit for about 20 years of operational services, scanning Europe and Africa every 10 minutes, 5 minutes faster than its predecessors.
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