Links from this page explain how soundings work. A NOAA Web site has information about weather satellites, including a line drawing showing GOES coverage areas . Another NOAA Web site has a GOES mission overview . NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center GOES Science Project has a wide range of images, including three-dimensional photos created using satellite images. Images from weather satellites Click here for links to weather satellite images.
Many people download their own satellite images.
If you're interesting in finding out more about this, click here to go to the The Remote Imaging Group's web site. The RIG is a group of enthusiasts interested in the receiving pictures from weather satellites. The group's web site has a collection of information about receiving and interpreting weather satellite pictures. Click here for information on a new NASA instrument on a Japanese satellite that measured wind speeds and directions over remote ocean areas.