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A weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be either polar orbiting, seeing the same swath of the Earth every 12 hours, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on Earth by orbiting over the equator while moving at the speed of the Earth’s rotation.These meteorological satellites, however, see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information collected using weather satellites.  [Wikipedia]

These are some results of its work.

1 Cyclone over the Atlantic 02/05/2006. Credit: EUMETSAT #

2 Super Typhoon Choi-Wan over the Pacific, south of Japan. Credit: EUMETSAT #

3 Intense depression Tuva to the north of Scotland, 31/01/2008. Credit: EUMETSAT #

4 Jimena, a Category 4 hurricane over the Pacific Ocean, 30/08/2009. Credit: EUMETSAT #

5 Super typhoon Sinlaku close to Taiwan, 12/09/2008. Credit: EUMETSAT #

6 Meteosat-8 monitors cyclone formation over the Iberian Peninsula, 28/10/2008. Credit: EUMETSAT #