I'm 99% sure that geostationary satellites (like the one in the post) give a direct image of half of the Earth.

EDIT: I just talked to my mother. She worked with meteorological satellite images downloaded directly from the satellites, since long before you can edit them with computers.

Geostationary satellites give you a picture of (almost) a half of the Earth. Polar satellites have usually a lower orbit and the image cover only some strip of the Earth in each pass.