It’s official — our holiday lights are so bright we can see them from space. Thanks to the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite, a joint mission between NASA and NOAA, scientists are presenting a new way of studying satellite data that can illustrate patterns in holiday lights, both during Christmas and the Holy Month of Ramadan. These new tools can provide new insights into how energy consumption behaviors vary across different cultural settings.
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GSFC_20141216_Holiday_Night_Lights_m10352
Date Created
December 16, 2014
Center
GSFC
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video
Photographer
Robert Andreoli, John Caldwell
Location
Goddard Space Flight Center
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