Nighttime Satellite Image Of Florida
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Nighttime satellite image of florida. It isn t really a photo instead it is an image that was compiled using data from a sensor aboard the nasa noaa suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite launched in 2011. Expedition 51 flight engineer thomas pesquet captured this nighttime photo of florida from the international space station. Bright lights include the miami fort lauderdale area and orlando with cape canaveral to the east where launch preparations for spacex s next cargo mission are underway at nasa s kennedy space center. The image was made possible by the satellite s day night band of the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights gas flares auroras wildfires and reflected moonlight.
This sensor allows researchers to observe earth s atmosphere and surface during nighttime hours. See the latest florida enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover. The small cluster of lights far offshore is freeport on grand bahama island image right. Dim lights of the florida keys extend the arc of the atlantic coast to the corner of the image.
It is a map of the location of lights on earth s surface. Nasa earth observatory 2012 february 13 southeastern usa at night.