GeoCAT-examples provides a gallery of visualization examples demonstrating how to reproduce plots from NCL Applications scripts with packages in Python. It also includes some longer form examples demonstrating how to use functionality from various GeoCAT packages.
It looks like we're just using an Orthographic projection for the "satellite" examples. We should probably use something more appropriate like: https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/reference/projections.html#nearsideperspective
See here for context on what NCL means by a "satellite" projection: https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/satel.shtml