Satellite Image Of Ireland At Night
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Satellite image of ireland at night. The image was made possible by the new satellite s day night band which can spot lighting more accurately than ever before. The map has been made entirely with black and white photography. The incredible images from nasa show the uk on the night of march 27 2012. What a difference a season makes.
Ireland was swathed in white on december 22 2010 when the modis instrument aboard the terra satellite passed overhead capturing this true color image. 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 images used to build the map have a scale of about 750 metres per pixel. Satellite imagery is particularly valuable because it enables the analysis of objects without being in direct contact with those objects.
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. It was created with data from the suomi npp satellite using the viirs visible infrared imaging radiometer suite camera. Currently the best available map of the earth at night is the black marble map. Previously known as flash earth.
Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. See the latest ireland enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover. Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom.