Earth At Night From Space
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.
Earth at night from space. Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. 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. It twinkles with lights from humans and nature.
Nasa researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. 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. 6 but the best time to see mars will be midnight according to nasa.
Mars will be visible skyward on oct. The planet begins to make its 2020 close approach to earth on oct. 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.
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. Mars made its closest approach to earth in nearly 60 000 years in 2003 and won t be that close again until 2287. The main image of the earth at night 2012 was captured by nasa using the suomi national polar orbiting partnership suomi npp satellite.
This composite image one of three new full hemisphere views provides a view of the americas at night. Sometime between friday oct. Scientists are using images of earth s dark side to gain insight on human activity and poorly understood natural events.
Mars is relatively easy to spot in the night sky due to its bright orange red. 30 2020 and thursday nov. 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.