The Water Vapor Channel . ... NASA/GSFC ) and The GOES Project Explanation: What alien planet's bizarre landscape lurks below these fiery-looking clouds? It's only Planet Earth , of course ... as seen on the Water Vapor Channel. Hourly, images like this one (an infrared image shown in false color) are brought to you by the orbiting Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites' (GOES) multi-channel imagers . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...