{"id":754911,"date":"2023-05-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754911"},"modified":"2023-05-04T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:00:00","slug":"first-images-from-meteosat-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754911","title":{"rendered":"First images from Meteosat satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/First_images_from_Meteosat_satellites_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1977, the first Meteosat satellite took its place in geostationary orbit and laid the foundations for the European and world cooperation in meteorology that continues today.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the success of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Meteorological_missions\/Meteosat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>first Meteosat generation<\/u> <u>and the subsequent Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)<\/u><\/a>\u00a0series, the first satellite of the third generation, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Meteorological_missions\/meteosat_third_generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0<u>Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I1)<\/u><\/a>, was launched on 13 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This animation shows the first images of Earth captured by the Meteosat satellites ranging from 9 December 1977 (Meteosat-1) all the way to the first image from MTG-I1 acquired on 18 March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/05\/First_images_from_Meteosat_satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First images from Meteosat satellites<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1977, the first Meteosat satellite took its place in geostationary orbit and laid the foundations for the European and world cooperation in meteorology that continues today. Building on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754912,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}