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Great Britain and northern France by night - 2012

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: t-eufra-00052

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 17 cm

The image shows London and the southern half of Great Britain as it appeared on the night of March 27, 2012. 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.

Keywords for this photo:

2012 - BELGIUM - CITY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EUROPE - FRANCE - LIGHT - LIGHT POLLUTION - NIGHT - SATELLITE IMAGE - SUOMI NPP - THE NETHERLANDS - UNITED KINGDOM -