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Image of the week: Global weather from space

Watching our Earth from 36,000km

This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of geostationary weather satellites 36,000km above our planet.

Last Updated

01 April 2025

Published on

26 March 2025

The composite image includes imagery from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT (Meteosat-9, -10 and -11), the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

A full year of weather for the entire Earth can be seen here.

Meteosat

EUMETSAT’s Meteosat satellites are a key part of the global ring of geostationary weather satellites and observe the Earth over Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. See their current view from our Earth view stream.

Weather satellite programmes are coordinated globally through the Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS).

Earth image

This image was captured by the imaging instruments on board weather satellites from Europe, US, China, and Japan. It shows infrared (IR 10.8) cloud data superimposed over NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation ground maps.