Satellite Map Of The United States At Night

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Satellite map of the united states at night.

East coast is normally ablaze in nighttime light with its cities growing closer and closer together. This map shows the geographic distribution of cities. Nasa researchers use these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map.

This image of the continental united states at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the suomi npp satellite in april and october 2012. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. Take control of your data. Please direct all questions and comments regarding goes e goes 16 images to.

The main image of the earth at night 2012 was captured by nasa using the suomi national polar orbiting partnership suomi npp satellite. Unlike august 14 2003 the bustling u s. It took over nine days in april 2012 and thirteen days in october 2012 during 312 orbits at 824 kilometers 512 miles to capture the whole earth. It clearly shows that cities are concentrated in europe the eastern united states japan china and india it is a better map for showing the geography of night time electricity consumption for outdoor lighting than it is for showing the geography of population.

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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. United states at night. Unless otherwise noted the images linked from this page are located on servers at the satellite products and services division spsd of the national environmental satellite data and information service nesdis.