GOES-8 satellite sees NYC terrorist attack on 11 September 2001

The 1km visible image taken at 12:45 pm EDT has been enhanced to show the debris field of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers (arrow 1).   The smoke plume (arrow 2) advected south along the coast of NJ.   The smoke plume spread to over 90 miles long and remain visible until sunset.
GOES8 animation

  • GOES-8 JavaScript Movie   shows the aftermath of the terrorist attack on NYC WTC.   The temporal resolution of the movie is 15/30 min and is approx 800KB in size.
  • A link to all the GOES-8 JPEG   and   GIF   files including this   animated gif   movie.

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