Satellite Image Of Ireland At Night

What a difference a season makes.

Satellite image of ireland at night.

Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom. The map has been made entirely with black and white photography. Image iss016 e 27034 was taken on february 1 2008 using a 28 mm lens. Currently the best available map of the earth at night is the black marble map.

Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. The incredible images from nasa show the uk on the night of march 27 2012. See the latest ireland enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover. Shown below is a famous nasa image that is often called a satellite photo of earth at night 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.

Ireland was swathed in white on december 22 2010 when the modis instrument aboard the terra satellite passed overhead capturing this true color image. Nasa s satellite images of cities at night are awe inspiring with cork dublin el paso and chicago all looking radically different when just their city lights are on show. The image was made possible by the new satellite s day night band which can spot lighting more accurately than ever before. Previously known as flash earth.

The images used to build the map have a scale of about 750 metres per pixel. It was created with data from the suomi npp satellite using the viirs visible infrared imaging radiometer suite camera. 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.