The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to offer an exhibition showcasing breathtaking snapshots of Wisconsin as seen by weather satellites flying hundreds of miles above the Earth.
Free and open to the public, the Satellites See Wisconsin exhibit will be available at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin February 11-September 10, 2011.
The road to today's weather satellite technology began in Madison, Wisconsin more than half a century ago. View the beginnings with Verner Suomi and Robert Parent's first successful meteorlogical experiment and a replica of Explorer 7.
This is a near true-color image of Green Bay showing the mouth of the Fox River in the City of Green Bay, and the Door County Peninsula. Tons of sediment wash into Green Bay each year as a result of natural run-off and the discharge of 24 paper mills along a 39-mile stretch of the lower Fox River, the largest concentration of paper mills in the world. Clean-up of PCBs, mostly deposited in the 1970s, is an ongoing process expected to cost more than a billion dollars. This image represents a merging of satellite imagery with the shaded relief topography from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
For more information:
- View the slideshow
- Brochure (large file - about 700 KB)
- Poster Slideshow
- OWL Animation Loop
- Timeline (large file - about 2 MB)
- Interesting events as seen by satellite