United States From Space

There is a current debate on the post space shuttle future of the civilian space program.
United states from space. Original nasa video caption. By day cities viewed from space can blend into the countryside or appear as gray smudges depending on the style of development and size of the urban area. The aerosols have traveled east across the united states. Made with videoshow music.
Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom. This image of the continental united states at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the suomi npp satellite in april and october 2012. United states seen at night from the international space station. Ten countries including continents from space at night.
Up the east coast of north america with cities labeled. The image was made possible by the satellite s day night band of the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared.