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Himawari 8 (ひまわり8号) is a Japanese weather satellite, the 8th of the Himawari geostationary weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The image beside is updated near real-time (20-minute delay) every 10 minutes. Code is written in JavaScript and hosted on GitHub.

Click to pan, shift+scroll to zoom. Maximum zoom will download 400 images with the total resolution of 121 megapixel!

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