In the early hours of May 22, 2013, GOES-13 suffered a loss of its ability to properly track the stars - the system that keeps its sensors pointed towards Earth. While engineers began working on the situation, NOAA quickly switched GOES-15 into a non-standard mode of capturing full hemisphere images every 30 minutes - the typical frequency that GOES-13 collects data. This image shows the coverage of the GOES-15 full hemisphere imagery (blue line) overlaid with the coverage area that GOES-13 provides over the Continental United States (green lin...