BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: Alright, well, his next question: "Besides keeping an eye on hurricanes, what other tasks is GOES-N equipped for?"
ANDRE' DRESS: Well, actually, the, other than just taking pictures of clouds and weather, the imager and sounder
do a lot of other things. They look at volcanoes, they look at fires, they can see water vapor in the
atmosphere. With the solar X-ray imager, we look at flares that are coming off of the Sun, and we also have a
very exclusive space environmental suite, in which we look at the Earth's ambient magnetic field, and we also
look at energetic particles which are coming from the Sun and actually get trapped in the Earth's atmosphere.
In addition to that, the spacecraft has a full complement of communication services, which go from a search
and rescue to data collection systems, which are taking data that come off the weather buoys that are out in
the ocean and relayed off of the satellite. And there's a lot of other good things that are taking place
other than just taking pictures on the satellite. BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: Okay, thank you.