The Japan Meteorological Agency's (JMA) Himawari-8 satellite captured this rapid scan imagery of what is now Typhoon Lionrock in the western Pacific Ocean south of Japan on August 24, 2016. This imagery, which comes to us courtesy of our partners at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), provides a scan of weather events like typhoons every 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and offers us a glimpse of the kind of imagery we'll be able to obtain with NOAA's GOES-R satellite. GOES

On July 1, 2021, the Fengyun-4B satellite, China's latest generation geostationary orbit weather satellite, successfully sent back the first batch of visible light observation images with high accuracy and efficiency. Watch this video from Weather China, the China Meteorological Administration's online weather service, to find out more. | CGTN