{"id":62314,"date":"2025-01-01T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=62314"},"modified":"2025-01-02T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:24:14","slug":"aurora-to-start-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/62314","title":{"rendered":"Aurora to start the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/VIIRSDNB-20250101_0627_to_1012step.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/VIIRSDNB-20250101_0627_to_1012step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62316\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VIIRS Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery from 0627 to 1012 UTC on 1 January 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Day Night Band imagery from JPSS satellites, above, processed using CSPP software on data from CIMSS and Monterey Direct Broadcast antennas, show a ribbon of Aurora over southern Canada early on the 1st of January. Activity was much brighter over the western part of North America. The Aurora is visible in part because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moongiant.com\/phase\/1\/1\/2025\">waxing crescent Moon<\/a> (it was new on 30 December 2024). NOAA-21 Day Night Band imagery over Alaska, below (unfortunately mislabeled as Suomi NPP), shows the peak Aurora initially over the southern part of the State.  By the end of the animation however it is farther north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/AKN21DNB-20250101_0944_to_1804step.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/AKN21DNB-20250101_0944_to_1804step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62317\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VIIRS Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery from 0944 to 1804 UTC on 1 January 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aurora were present on 2 January as well over Alaska, as shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/AKN21DNB-20250102_0926_to_1427step.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/AKN21DNB-20250102_0926_to_1427step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62325\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VIIRS Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery from 0926 to 1427 UTC on 2 January 2025 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Night Band imagery from JPSS satellites, above, processed using CSPP software on data from CIMSS and Monterey Direct Broadcast antennas, show a ribbon of Aurora over southern Canada early on the 1st of January. Activity was much brighter over the western part of North America. The Aurora is visible in part because of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":62319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62327,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62314\/revisions\/62327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}