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The lights then fade away to reveal how night lights changed between 2012 and 2023, with regions of more light depicted in purple and regions with less light depicted in orange. ||", "hits": 339 }, { "id": 5477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5477/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-05-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "SOS - Day/Night cycle with Blue Marble and Black Marble Nightlights", "description": "This animation shows daylight and nighttime cycles of Earth over a three-day period in 2024 as the planet spins on it’s axis.", "hits": 1082 }, { "id": 31298, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31298/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-07-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Korean Night Lights", "description": "Photos taken from the International Space Station showing cities in Korea. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 5313, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5313/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Change in Night Lights between 2012 and 2023 - EIC Version", "description": "This global, flat map view of night lights data begins with a time series depicting annual averages from 2012 to 2023. 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This image sequence begins over the Indian Ocean halfway between Madagascar and Antarctica. Aurora Australis is present for the first 2/3rds of the video, then Australis comes into view. Yellow lights near the coast show the presence of cities, while interior oragne lights indicate brush fires.http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 184 }, { "id": 30195, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30195/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-17T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Night Views of Fires in Siberia", "description": "The vast majority of Russian wildfires occur in Siberia, generally along the southern border. This year’s blazes have followed the typical pattern and occurred primarily east of the Urals. This pair of images from August 3, 2012 shows fires using two different instruments. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite carries an instrument called the “day-night band,” designed to be sensitive to such low levels of visible light that it can detect wildfires in the dark of the night. On August 3, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP acquired the right image of wildfires blazing in eastern Siberia. The white outlines are the actively burning perimeters of several fires. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 30082, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30082/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-04T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Earth at Night", "description": "This new space-based view of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took the satellite 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing MODIS Blue Marble imagery to provide a realistic view of the planet. The view was made possible by the “day-night band” of Suomi NPP’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite. VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses “smart” light sensors to observe dim signals such as city lights, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. This low-light sensor can distinguish night lights tens to hundreds of times better than previous satellites. || ", "hits": 359 }, { "id": 30028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30028/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-04-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth at Night 2012", "description": "This new space-based view of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took the satellite 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing MODIS Blue Marble imagery to provide a realistic view of the planet.The view was made possible by the \"day-night band\" of Suomi NPP's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite. VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses \"smart\" light sensors to observe dim signals such as city lights, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. This low-light sensor can distinguish night lights tens to hundreds of times better than previous satellites. || ", "hits": 387 }, { "id": 10231, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10231/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Battery Module Replacement EVA", "description": "Battery Modules. The six batteries currently on board the observatory are all original equipment. After more than 17 years of continuous operation the batteries are degrading. In the current condition, the Hubble electrical power system requires careful management of system state of charge to assure adequate power margins for all operational scenarios. This will become more difficult, and will start to constrain operations. The replacement of the two Hubble battery modules (each containing three batteries) will rejuvenate the electrical power system. This, combined with the power system enhancements made in Servicing Mission 3B, will result in ample power margins for the remainder of Hubble's lifetime. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 2916, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2916/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-02-16T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth At Night (WMS)", "description": "This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface.The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. (Compare western Europe with China and India.) Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. Even without the underlying map, the outlines of many continents would still be visible. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region.Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electric light, some regions remain thinly populated and unlit. Antarctica is entirely dark. The interior jungles of Africa and South America are mostly dark, but lights are beginning to appear there. Deserts in Africa, Arabia, Australia, Mongolia, and the United States are poorly lit as well (except along the coast), along with the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and the great mountains of the Himalaya. || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 2396, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2396/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-03-06T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Lights of Earth: United States", "description": "The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 2397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2397/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-03-06T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Lights of Earth: Full Spin", "description": "The Lights of Earth can be seen from space. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. With the OLS 'VIS' band data it is possible to detect clouds illuminated by moonlight, plus lights from cities, towns, industrial sites, gas flares, and ephemeral events such as fires and lightning-illuminated clouds. The Nighttime Lights of the World data set is compiled from the October 1994 - March 1995 DMSP nighttime data collected when moonlight was low. Using the OLS thermal infrared band, areas containing clouds were removed and the remaining area used in the time series. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 2276, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2276/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-10-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth at Night 2001", "description": "This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) currently operates four satellites carrying the Operational Linescan System (OLS) in low-altitude polar orbits. Three of these satellites record nighttime data. The DMSP-OLS has a unique capability to detect low levels of visible-near infrared (VNIR) radiance at night. 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The various orthographic data sets showing progressive global change were mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. Showing Earthandapos;s atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. This animation is a revised version of Animation #96 [The HoloGlobe Project (Version 1)]. || ", "hits": 71 } ] }