what one picture can show you. The following images were taken from
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
which orbits at nearly 23,000 miles above the Earth's surface.
That's a "magic" distance which allows the satellite to orbit at roughly
the same speed that the earth rotates, allowing it to remain over the same
point (stationary) of the Earth (Geo)...hence goestationary!
In the following visible images, you will be able to see some fantastic geographic features such as the ice cover, the Finger Lakes, river valleys etc., which in some cases have been neatly outlined by snow cover.