picture of the earth at night from space

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center If you aren’t familiar with this process you can read how to set a picture as wallpaper on iPhone or iPad here and how to change the desktop picture on Mac OS here. The images focus on several regions but here we are focusing on four primary compositions: North America and the USA, Europe and Africa, Asia, and the Americas.Ĭlick on any image below to launch the full sized version into a new window where you can download the picture from NASA and set it as your wallpaper. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, these four high resolution images show Earth and the major habitation sights of humans glowing from light pollution, showing where the cities and population centers are on the planet.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / Earth ObservatoryĬlick here to view all of the Earth at Night 2012 imagesĬlick here to read more download or read more about this video This video uses the Earth at night view created by NASA's Earth Observatory with data processed by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center and combined with a version of the Earth Observatory's Blue Marble: Next Generation. It took 312 satellite orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of land surface. This new image is a composite of data acquired over nine days in April and thirteen days in October 2012. The day-night band on VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights, gas flares, and wildfires.

A joint program by NASA and NOAA, Suomi NPP captured this nighttime image by the satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP). In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. Unprecedented New Look at Our Planet at Night

Picture of the earth at night from space