{"id":10087,"date":"2012-03-26T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2012-03-28T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:07:14","slug":"suomi-npp-viirs-true-color-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10087","title":{"rendered":"Suomi NPP: VIIRS true color imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/viirs_true_20120326_t18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/03\/viirs_true_20120326_t18_small.jpg\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image\" width=\"480\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the <a title=\"Suomi NPP\" href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\"><strong>Suomi NPP<\/strong><\/a> satellite had experienced an anomaly and gone into a sun-pointing &#8220;safe mode&#8221; on 24 March, all the satellite instruments began to successfully recover by <a title=\"26 March 2012 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20120326.html\"><strong>26 March 2012<\/strong><\/a>. Shown above is a 750-meter resolution true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the <a title=\"VIIRS\" href=\"http:\/\/npp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/viirs.html\"><strong>VIIRS<\/strong><\/a> instrument, acquired via the Direct Broadcast ground station at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison <em>(image courtesy of Liam Gumley, SSEC)<\/em>. A number of interesting features can be seen in the image, including (1) the break-up of ice in Hudson Bay and James Bay in Canada, (2) smoke plumes from fires burning across parts of the southeastern US, and (3) the outflow of sediment-rich water from the mouth of the Mississippi River (and other rivers) into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Suomi NPP satellite had experienced an anomaly and gone into a sun-pointing &#8220;safe mode&#8221; on 24 March, all the satellite instruments began to successfully recover by 26 March 2012. Shown above is a 750-meter resolution true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the VIIRS instrument, acquired via the Direct Broadcast ground station at the Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}