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lc this is the ld we are go for launch

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and liftoff of the delta iv rocket with

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go zone we're at kennedy space today is

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june 27th 2009.

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severe weather

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exactly a month ago on june 27th nasa

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launched a new and improved weather

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satellite code goes-o

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now that goes o is safely into its orbit

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it has been renamed to ghost 14. today

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i'm at noaa satellite operations

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facility in suitland maryland where nasa

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and noaa will be releasing the very

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first image from ghost 14 and one of the

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things that ghost 14 will be doing is

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providing weather forecasters with

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images with greater stability and

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resolution so let's go in and see the

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first image and talk to noaa

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meteorologist tom rankivens about it

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we're seeing the first visible image

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from goes 14 here in a suitland

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national satellite operations facility

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launch control room

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we see some thunderstorms in the

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oklahoma texas area i've been dropping

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an inch or more of rain through today

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some thunderstorms off the east coast

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we're seeing

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as we see more and more of the atlantic

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ocean coming in to the right side of the

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screen we've seen absence of tropical

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activity been very quiet this year

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so what is exciting about today what are

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we seeing in the background well today

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for the first time we see a whole disk

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image it took 30 minutes to come in

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and it's exciting it's the very first

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full disc image from the satellite that

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just launched nearly a month ago so how

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high is the resolution of this image the

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resolution for the visible pixels you

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can see one kilometer pixels on the

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ground which equates to if you're

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standing seven football fields away

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taking a picture of a dime so seeing

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those images at one kilometer you can

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really focus in on forest fires

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snowfall hurricane tracking severe

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weather tracking from far away in space

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and you said far away in space then how

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does this satellite take these stable

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images it's over 22 000 miles away from

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earth and to get stable images or star

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trackers on board a very sophisticated

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spacecraft so when you look at a series

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of images you can see the clouds where

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features move but the land beneath it

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stays stable do you recall any very

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exciting images from the previous ghost

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missions can you tell me a little bit

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several years ago i do recall seeing

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hurricane katrina i was very impressive

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from satellite imagery and that picture

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got the word out help the hurricane

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forecasters and help the general public

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realize and identify there's a very

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severe situation on hand and helped get

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the word out for people to evacuate so

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seeing those pictures of hurricane

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katrina or other hurricanes or severe

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weather really gets a message across to

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to

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of the importance of the weather so you

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must feel like you're part of something

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making a difference we sure are we're

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definitely making a difference every day

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providing these great images to the

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public