Multimedia: Games, Apps and Models
Learn more about weather, meteorology and the GOES-R Series Program by playing some fun and educational games! Find out how a hurricane forms, how GOES-R series satellites will help improve weather forecasts, how the satellites contribute to search and rescue efforts, and how the sun affects weather on Earth.
Click on the thumbnail images or links below to launch or download our games and apps.
GOES-R LEGO Model
Step-by-step instructions plus a complete brick and parts list to build your very own GOES-R model!
SciJinks Games and Apps
Fun activities from NOAA's SciJinks.
ZAP!
Make lightning with ZAP! You’re an updraft! In this game, build up charges within a storm cloud.
Hurricane Hero
Help Theo and Bill! In Hurricane Hero , they need to figure out where hurricanes will make landfall. Using data from the GOES-R satellite, estimate where the hurricanes will hit!
Spectrix
Spectrix Create the perfect combinations of colors to produce vital information about weather and the environment.
Rescue 406!
Rescue 406! Use information from satellites like GOES-R and JPSS to direct the rescue effort. You’ll need to be quick to keep up with an increasing number of people in trouble! Rescue 406 is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices.
Satellite Insight
Help to capture and store the flood of data from GOES-R. In the Satellite Insight game , you will have to think and move fast to keep up with the massive flow of different types of data being captured by GOES-R. Satellite Insight is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.
GOES-R Flight Controller
Play GOES-R Flight Controller and help plan hazard-avoiding flight paths for passenger planes flying between cities. You will have the help of three types of "real-time" and computer-processed data from GOES-R. See if you can make it all the way to "Expert Flight Controller."
GOES-R Fun Activity Book
Download the GOES-R Fun Activity Book and explore GOES-R and the weather through mazes, crosswords, word searches, coloring pages, and other fun puzzles and activities!
Shields Up
In Shields Up!, warnings from the GOES-R satellite will let you know when to shield other Earth satellites from the harmful effects of bad space weather.
Weather Tricktionary
How much do you know about the weather around you? In Weather Tricktionary, test your knowledge by picking out the correct definition for different weather terms.
University of Wisconsin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) WebApps
Spectral Band WebApp
Spectral Band WebApp: Explore information available from different spectral bands measured by satellites.
Spatial Resolution WebApp
Spatial Resolution WebApp: Explore connections between improved spatial resolution and image clarity.
Image Resolution WebApp
Image Resolution WebApp: The Advanced Baseline Imager provides four times the spatial resolution and more than five times faster temporal coverage than previous GOES! These cases allow one to change the temporal and spatial resolution for a series of satellite images.
OTHER WEATHER RELATED GAMES AND APPS
SciJinks and Space Place
More fun activities from NASA's The Space Place and NOAA's SciJinks.
University of Wisconsin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) WebApps
WxSat
WxSat (short for Weather Satellite) displays and animates full-resolution, real-time weather satellite data. WxSat leverages SSEC Data Center holdings and RealEarth to provide global coverage for visible, infrared, and water vapor channels. WxSat is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.
SatCam
SatCam lets you capture observations of sky and ground conditions at the same time that an Earth observation satellite is overhead. SatCam is available in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and other iOS devices.
Weather and Climate WebApps
Use Weather and Climate WebApps to explore the atmosphere, including precipitation, lightning, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and more!
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Games
Memory games from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Spark Science Education Program.
