Learn more about weather, meteorology and the GOES-R Series Program by playing some fun and educational games! Find out how a hurricane forms, how GOES-R series satellites will help improve weather forecasts, how the satellites contribute to search and rescue efforts, and how the sun affects weather on Earth.
Click on the thumbnail images or links below to launch or download our games and apps.
Step-by-step instructions plus a complete brick and parts list to build your very own GOES-R model!
Fun activities from NOAA's SciJinks.
Make lightning with ZAP! You’re an updraft! In this game, build up charges within a storm cloud.
Spectrix Create the perfect combinations of colors to produce vital information about weather and the environment.
Play GOES-R Flight Controller and help plan hazard-avoiding flight paths for passenger planes flying between cities. You will have the help of three types of "real-time" and computer-processed data from GOES-R. See if you can make it all the way to "Expert Flight Controller."
Download the GOES-R Fun Activity Book and explore GOES-R and the weather through mazes, crosswords, word searches, coloring pages, and other fun puzzles and activities!
In Shields Up!, warnings from the GOES-R satellite will let you know when to shield other Earth satellites from the harmful effects of bad space weather.
How much do you know about the weather around you? In Weather Tricktionary, test your knowledge by picking out the correct definition for different weather terms.
Spectral Band WebApp: Explore information available from different spectral bands measured by satellites.
Spatial Resolution WebApp: Explore connections between improved spatial resolution and image clarity.
Image Resolution WebApp: The Advanced Baseline Imager provides four times the spatial resolution and more than five times faster temporal coverage than previous GOES! These cases allow one to change the temporal and spatial resolution for a series of satellite images.
More fun activities from NASA's The Space Place and NOAA's SciJinks.
WxSat (short for Weather Satellite) displays and animates full-resolution, real-time weather satellite data. WxSat leverages SSEC Data Center holdings and RealEarth to provide global coverage for visible, infrared, and water vapor channels. WxSat is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.
SatCam lets you capture observations of sky and ground conditions at the same time that an Earth observation satellite is overhead. SatCam is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices.
Use Weather and Climate WebApps to explore the atmosphere, including precipitation, lightning, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and more!
Memory games from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Spark Science Education Program.