Slides #3 and #4 provide another comparative pair: a weather satellite image (slide #3) and a shuttle photograph (slide #4) of the same feature, taken at approximately the same time. The GOES East satellite, like Meteosat, is located in geosynchronous orbit at 22,300 miles above the Earth. This GOES image, taken during shuttle mission 41-C on April 7, 1984, shows a squall line of intense thunderstorms along a low-pressure front crossing Florida and the Eastern coast of the U.S. Compare with slide #4.

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