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City Lights of the United States 2012
2012-12-05
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79800 for GeoTIFF original file. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8247975848/in/set-72157632172101342/ for quicker access to the jpeg
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
NASA image acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012
This image of the United States of America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the new satellite’s “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight.
Instrument: Suomi NPP - VIIRS
Projection: Albers equal-area conic, WGS84 datum, standard parallels 29.5°N and 44.5°N, central meridian 96°W, origin latitude 23°N
On this image one pixel is (737.19 × 737.19)m²
