The Lights of London
From the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite.
The image above features London and the southern half of Great Britain (and other parts of Europe) as it appeared in March of 2012. While most of the events in the 2012 Olympics were held in the greater London area, several other cities and towns hosted events.
The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP, which includes a “day-night band” similar to images collected by the Operational Linescan System (OLS) flown on U.S. Defense Meterological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band and MODIS Blue Marble data
Image Number: 78674
Date: March 27, 2012
The Lights of London
From the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite.
The image above features London and the southern half of Great Britain (and other parts of Europe) as it appeared in March of 2012. While most of the events in the 2012 Olympics were held in the greater London area, several other cities and towns hosted events.
The image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP, which includes a “day-night band” similar to images collected by the Operational Linescan System (OLS) flown on U.S. Defense Meterological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band and MODIS Blue Marble data
Image Number: 78674
Date: March 27, 2012