{"id":11951,"date":"2012-12-05T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2012-12-06T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T01:55:26","slug":"the-black-marble-city-lights-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11951","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Black Marble&#8221;: City Lights At Night"},"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\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_global_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band composite (global view)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_global_anim.gif\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band composite (global view)\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band composite (global view)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 05 December 2012 NASA and the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) jointly released a &#8220;Black Marble&#8221; global composite of night-time Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band imagery <em>(collected from multiple cloud-free satellite overpasses in April and October 2012)<\/em> &#8212; the image above shows this dataset visualized using the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wmsserv2.ssec.wisc.edu\/\" title=\"SSEC Web Map Server\">SSEC Web Map Server<\/a><\/strong>. See the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/NPP\/news\/earth-at-night.html\" title=\"NASA news story\">NASA news story<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/1948\" title=\"SSEC news story\">SSEC news story<\/a><\/strong> for additional details.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (North America)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_anim.gif\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (North America)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (North America)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A closer view of North America is shown above, with a zoomed-in image centered on Madison, Wisconsin shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_zoom_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (centered on Madison, WI)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/wms_dnb_composite_zoom_anim.gif\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (centered on Madison, WI)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band composite image (centered on Madison, WI)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many examples of the VIIRS Day\/Night Band showing a variety of phenomena can be found elsewhere on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?s=Day%2FNight+Band\" title=\"VIIRS Day\/Night Band posts on the CIMSS Satellite Blog\">CIMSS Satellite Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 05 December 2012 NASA and the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) jointly released a &#8220;Black Marble&#8221; global composite of night-time Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band imagery (collected from multiple cloud-free satellite overpasses in April and October 2012) &#8212; the image above shows this dataset visualized using the SSEC Web Map Server. 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