NOAA satellite captures Earth mosaic showing stunning panoramic view - Fox News

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released the archetypal representation from its NOAA-21 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. 

The recently-launched outer captured a stunning panoramic presumption of the Earth, created from swaths of information captured passim the afloat globe implicit a play of 24 hours betwixt Dec. 5 and Dec. 6. 

Polar-orbiting satellites observe the full satellite doubly each day, dissimilar geostationary satellites.

According to the agency, the mosaic representation shows agleam bluish h2o containing phytoplankton successful the Caribbean Sea, upwind systems moving and smog from cultivation fires successful Northern India.

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The representation supra captured by NOAA-21’s VIIRS instrumentality shows water colour astir the Southern extremity of Florida and the Caribbean.  (Credit: NOAA STAR VIIRS Imagery Team)

Dr. Satya Kalluri, Joint Polar Satellite System programme scientist, said successful a merchandise that the turquoise colour astir Cuba and the Bahamas is owed to sediment successful the shallow waters astir the continental shelf.

VIIRS provides measurements of water color helping to observe harmful algal blooms and show phytoplankton enactment and oversea aboveground temperature. 

This outer representation released by NOAA 21 October shows fume from monolithic wood fires implicit the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra.  (AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

Over land, the outer – which besides flies connected the Joint Polar Satellite System’s NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP satellites – is capable to observe and measure the strength of wildfires, droughts and floods. 

The occurrence strength is fed into a merchandise that tracks the thickness and question of wildfire smoke. 

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VIIRS besides generates captious biology products connected snowfall and crystal cover, clouds, fog, aerosols and dust, arsenic good arsenic the wellness of the world’s crops. 

Unlike geostationary satellites, polar-orbiting satellites seizure swaths of information passim the afloat globe, and observe the full satellite doubly each day. This planetary mosaic, captured by the VIIRS instrumentality connected the precocious launched NOAA-21 satellite, is simply a composite representation created from these swaths implicit a play of 24 hours betwixt Dec. 5 and Dec. 6, 2022.  (NOAA STAR VIIRS SDR team.)

The instrumentality was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base connected Nov. 10.  

NOAA-21, antecedently known arsenic JPSS-2, is the 2nd operational outer successful a bid called the Joint Polar Satellite System.

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NOAA and NASA oversee the development, launch, investigating and cognition of each the satellites successful the system.