Satellite Image Of Ireland At Night

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Satellite image of ireland at night.

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. The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe. Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom.

For example it allows us to analyse images in wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye giving us the opportunity to monitor things like moisture content in soil and vegetation health. Satellite imagery is particularly valuable because it enables the analysis of objects without being in direct contact with those objects. 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. The images used to build the map have a scale of about 750 metres per pixel.

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. Image iss016 e 27034 was taken on february 1 2008 using a 28 mm lens. The incredible images from nasa show the uk on the night of march 27 2012. Previously known as flash earth.

Ireland was swathed in white on december 22 2010 when the modis instrument aboard the terra satellite passed overhead capturing this true color image. See the latest ireland enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover. The map has been made entirely with black and white photography.