NASA's GOES-R weather satellite, which launched last November, captured Monday's hail storm from space.
Video of the severe storm was posted on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Twitter page. As of right now all the data posted, is preliminary, as the satellite undergoes testing.
#GOES16 captured this visible imagery of the strong storms that tore through #Colorado yesterday. See more loops @ https://t.co/z0YAKzuaYj. pic.twitter.com/FkV6AgUS8D
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) May 9, 2017
GOES-R is designed to give forecasters a clearer sense of what the weather will do, as it unfolds. One new piece of technology is a lightning mapper, which will snap an image 200 times per second.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series or GOES-R is the most advanced U.S. civilian weather satellite every made.
An Atlas V rocket built by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GOES-R satellite, built in Jefferson County by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.
