I wrote a little bit about Suomi when there was a massive power outage. A recent Astronomy Picture of the Day was a composite of cloud-free nighttime images from this polar-orbiting satellite. (click to embiggen)
One of the more detailed photographs shows the activity in North Dakota, as they drill into the Bakken shale. (Ready to head up there, Vmax?)
I thought this one was very pretty. The ice shelf in Queen Maud Land in Antarctica is illuminated only by the aurora, yet the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi can still take pics with that dim light from 512 miles up.
Neat.
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Heh
I sent that pic to some family. The closest country to me is Bimini Bahamas or Cuba. Canada that close is wrong in my world.
Golly, that is pretty to see the world at night, thank you!
What’s up in Northen India?
200 million people in Uttar Pradesh, another 50 million or so in the other northern Indian states.
Gorgeous… love the aurora over the ice shelf. That must be driving the AGW crowd even more nuts than usual 😉