<p>In Scott Manley's new video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaxvjFh-qA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up</a> a bit after <code>01:30</code> he says</p>

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  <p>The good news is that in these days of near-limitless data storage capabilities the internet has a long memory, and we can look at the Himawari satellite which is a weather satellite in geostationary orbit that covers the area in question. </p>
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<p>I normally view Himawari images from <a href="https://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/</a> and if you open an image in a new window and look at the URL you can guess how to change the date and time into the past. That works for several days or a week, but not three months.</p>

<p><strong>Question:</strong> Where are three-month-old or possibly even year-old Himawari weather satellite images available to the public?</p>

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<p>As an exercise, per: </p>

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<li><a href="https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34896/12102">How was the 18 December 2018 Bering Sea Fireball detected and characterized? Was it a serendipity or a weather satellite?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/</a> </li>
</ul>

<p>the event was at <code>2018-12-18 23:48:20 UTC</code> and <code>56.9N 172.4E</code>.</p>

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@gansub well that was quick, I'll have a look and see if I can figure out how to navigate, thanks!
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Sure, that sounds swell! I'll be adding `2018-12-18 23:48:20 UTC` and `56.9N 172.4E` (Bearing Sea) to the question shortly; see also [How was the 18 December 2018 Bering Sea Fireball detected and characterized? Was it a serendipity or a weather satellite?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34896/12102)
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Where are old Himawari weather satellite images available to the public? Is the 18-Dec-2018 Bearing Sea fireball still there?
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# Where are old Himawari weather satellite images available to the public? Is the 18-Dec-2018 Bearing Sea fireball still there?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-20)

In Scott Manley's new video [173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaxvjFh-qA) a bit after `01:30` he says

> The good news is that in these days of near-limitless data storage capabilities the internet has a long memory, and we can look at the Himawari satellite which is a weather satellite in geostationary orbit that covers the area in question.

I normally view Himawari images from <https://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/> and if you open an image in a new window and look at the URL you can guess how to change the date and time into the past. That works for several days or a week, but not three months.

**Question:** Where are three-month-old or possibly even year-old Himawari weather satellite images available to the public?

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As an exercise, per:

* [How was the 18 December 2018 Bering Sea Fireball detected and characterized? Was it a serendipity or a weather satellite?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34896/12102)
* <https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/>

the event was at `2018-12-18 23:48:20 UTC` and `56.9N 172.4E`.

**Tags:** open-data, meteorite, earth-observation, weather-satellites

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: @gansub well that was quick, I'll have a look and see if I can figure out how to navigate, thanks!  
> **username_0**: Sure, that sounds swell! I'll be adding `2018-12-18 23:48:20 UTC` and `56.9N 172.4E` (Bearing Sea) to the question shortly; see also [How was the 18 December 2018 Bering Sea Fireball detected and characterized? Was it a serendipity or a weather satellite?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34896/12102)  

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