View of the Mediterranean

The Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I1) first image – view of the Mediterranean. The higher resolution of the imaging instrument on MTG-I1 provides information that Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites could not deliver. The information is crucial for understanding the weather and climate. Visible in this ‘zoomed-in’ view of the Mediterranean is turbidity in coastal waters and snow on the Alps, the Apennine Mountains and the Dinaric Alps, as well as more detail about the cloud structures in the image. Some of these features are not visible in the same view taken at almost the same time by the imager on the MSG satellite, or not visible with the same amount of detail. The image was taken by the Flexible Combined Imager on MTG-I1 at 11:50 UTC on 18 March 2023.

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