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GOES18 image.

GOES satellites carry onboard a Space Environment Monitor subsystem that measures X-rays, Energetic Particles and the Magnetic Field at the spacecraft.
















GOES images the Moon

This has nothing to do with the GOES SEM ...

GOES-8 Imager
June 8, 1995 11:45 UT
75.3 degrees west longitude

Channel #3 Infrared (6.50-7.00 microns)
Click to see the full view. Pseudo color image of moon Color scale for the pseudo color images.

Channel #2 Infrared (3.80-4.00 microns)
Click to see the full view. pseudo color Color scale for the pseudo color images.

Channel #4 Infrared (10.20-11.20 microns)
Click to see the full view. Pseudo color image of the moon. Color scale for the pseudo color images.

Channel #5 Infrared (11.50-12.50 microns)
Click to see the full view. Pseudo color image of the moon. Color scale for the pseudo color images.

Channel #1 Visible (.55-.75 microns)
Click to see the full view. Click to see the highest resolution. Color scale for the pseudo color images.

On average, the Moon's surface temperature is 107C during the day and -153C at night. This explains why the moon is much brighter in IR than Earth.