Map Of The World At Night
Strong lights occur in a strand that includes washington dc philadelphia new jersey new york city and boston.
Map of the world at night. With its night view viirs is able to detect a more complete view of storms and other weather conditions such as fog that are difficult to discern with infrared or thermal sensors. This map shows the geographic distribution of night time lights in the united states canada mexico and the caribbean. Each white dot on the map represents the light of a city a fire a ship at sea an oil well flare or other light source. Nasa scientists used data from the satellite to produce this world map of cities at night.
13 2012 the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite captured this nighttime view of the nile river. Nasa s goddard space flight center kathryn mersmann. By studying earth at night researchers can investigate how cities expand monitor light intensity to estimate energy use and economic activity and aid in disaster response. Most of the large cities of canada are located within a couple hundred miles of the united states border.
Nasa researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. The thick yellow line shows where sunset and sunrise are currently occurring. The night earth map shows the lights that are visible at night on the earth s surface. Nasa scientists have just released the first new global map of earth at night since 2012.
Nasa has released a global map of the earth at night for the first time since 2012 using the powerful suomi npp satellite and complex computer algorithms to give us our best look yet at our planet in darkness. Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. This composite image which has become a popular poster shows a global view of earth at night compiled from over 400 satellite images. The brightest areas of the earth are the most urbanized but not necessarily the most populated compare western europe with china and india.
Hovering the mouse over any location on the map will show the map will show the altitude of the sun as seen from that location.