Earth At Night From Space

Mars will be visible skyward on oct.
Earth at night from space. Mars made its closest approach to earth in nearly 60 000 years in 2003 and won t be that close again until 2287. It took over nine days in april 2012 and thirteen days in october 2012 during 312 orbits at 824 kilometers 512 miles to capture the whole earth. A global composite image constructed using cloud free night images from a new nasa and national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa satellite shows the glow of natural and human built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before. Earth at night will show how humans and natural phenomena light up the darkness and how and why scientists have observed earth s nightlights for more than four decades using both their own eyes and spaceborne instruments.
Mars will still be visible through october but. Mars is relatively easy to spot in the night sky due to its bright orange red. Earth at night this composite image which has become a popular poster shows a global view of earth at night compiled from over 400 satellite images. This composite image one of three new full hemisphere views provides a view of the americas at night.
It twinkles with lights from humans and nature. Sometime between friday oct. 30 2020 and thursday nov. 5 2020 near earth object 2018 vp1 between 2 and 4 meters 6 to 13 feet in size will most likely pass earth somewhere between 0 02 and 10 0 lunar distances nominally 1 1 traveling at 9 71 kilometers per second 21 720 miles per hour.
6 but the best time to see mars will be midnight according to nasa. New full hemisphere views of earth at night nasa scientists are releasing new global maps of earth at night providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. That is the point in mars orbit when it comes closest to earth this time at about 38 6 million miles 62 07 million kilometers from our planet. The main image of the earth at night 2012 was captured by nasa using the suomi national polar orbiting partnership suomi npp satellite.
Scientists are using images of earth s dark side to gain insight on human activity and poorly understood natural events. Read an earth observatory feature about improvements and applications for night lights data. Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. Mars was visible for much of the night in the southern sky and at its highest point at about midnight.