United States From Space
The aerosols have traveled east across the united states.
United states from space. 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. There is a current debate on the post space shuttle future of the civilian space program. Up the east coast of north america with cities labeled.
Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom. The early history of united states space policy is linked to the us soviet space race of the 1960s which gave way to the space shuttle program. The space policy of the united states includes both the making of space policy through the legislative process and the implementation of that policy in the civilian and military us space programs through regulatory agencies.
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. Made with videoshow music. Ten countries including continents from space at night.
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.