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NASA Earth Observatory\/Joshua Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turns out that the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) aboard the GOES-16 and GOES-17 earth observing satellites can do more than just detect lightning\u2014it can also detect bolides<\/a>, or very bright meteors, thanks to a new automatic detection algorithm<\/a>. NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>: \u201cThe map above shows the distribution of more than 3,000 bolides detected by the GLMs aboard GOES-16 and GOES-17 between July 2017 and January 2022. Blue points are bolides detected by GOES-16; pink points were detected by GOES-17. The lone pink point over the Atlantic Ocean was detected by GOES-17 during its commissioning phase before it was moved into its operational orbit over the West Coast.\u201d (Bolides in the middle of the map are detected by both, and as you can see there\u2019s a bit of parallax.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) aboard the GOES-16 and GOES-17 earth observing satellites can do more than just detect lightning\u2014it can also detect bolides, or very bright meteors, thanks to a… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1560,992,1558,1561,1559,12,15],"class_list":["post-1806020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-bolides","tag-goes-16","tag-goes-17","tag-lightning","tag-meteors","tag-nasa","tag-satellite","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789329,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/mapping-the-california-heat-wave\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806020,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the California Heat Wave","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 September 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"NASA Earth Observatory: \u201cThe map above shows air temperatures across the United States on September 6, 2020, when much of the Southwest roasted in a dramatic heatwave. 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