Currently there are five Meteosat satellites on duty, two second generation spacecrafts METEOSAT-9 (MSG2), METEOSAT-8 (MSG1) and three old generation spacecrafts METEOSAT-7 (MTP1), METEOSAT-6 (MOP3), METEOSAT-5 (MOP2). The new generation Meteosat satellites (Meteosat 8 was operational on January 2004) has more advanced technical features compared to all the other first generation satellites. Meteosat 5, 6 and 7 were moved over the Indian Ocean at 57° and 67° East.

Meteosat satellite is also used as trasponder of images taken by other worldwide meteorological geostationary satellites (GMS, GOMS, GOES) and it's so possible to have images of the whole Earth.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) produces a fine global montage of all the images taken by all worldwide geostationary satellites.

All image times are UTC (Universal Time Coordinates) corresponding to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Italian official time is one hour ahead UTC in winter and two hours ahead UTC during the daylight saving period. If the displayed images are not updated it may be a cache problem so try to press the reload button in your browser. Remeber that infrared are the only images available during the night. Moreover early in the morning or late in the evenig the visible images may result quite dark.

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