Real Satellite View Of Earth At Night

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Real satellite view of earth at night.

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. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of earth s land surface and islands. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. 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 new global view and animation of earth s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the suomi npp satellite. Previously known as flash earth. The data was acquired over nine days in april 2012 and 13 days in october 2012. The satellite orbits at an altitude of 705 kilometers above the earth in a near polar orbit around the earth from north pole to south pole.

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. The main image of the earth at night 2012 was captured by nasa using the suomi national polar orbiting partnership suomi npp satellite. Or if you re feeling adventurous you can try earth anyway by choosing an option below. This means that every area of land on earth is imaged at least once every 16 days.

Previously known as flash earth. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. Landsat 8 orbits the earth every 99 minutes. Nasa researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas.

Launch wasm multiple threaded launch wasm single threaded learn more about google earth. Download imagery via the maps below. This composite image which has become a popular poster shows a global view of earth at night compiled from over 400 satellite images.