Tag: Suomi NPP
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Suomi NPP sees Hurricane Maria’s startling effect on Puerto Rico power grid
These side-by-side, before-and-after images of Puerto Rico show the effect of Hurricane Maria on the island’s electrical grid. Credit: NOAA A scanning instrument aboard NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sensitive to city lights, wildfires and volcanic eruptions has returned views of Puerto Rico before and after the passage of Hurricane Maria, showing the island’s electrical grid…
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Destructive Canadian wildfire sighted from space
These wide view before and after images from DigitalGlobe’s commercial WorldView 2 Earth observation satellite show the area around Fort McMurray, Alberta, before and after the wildfire. The left image was taken May 29, 2015, and the right image is from May 6, 2016. In these false-color near-infrared images, the bright red areas represent healthy…
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Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country
A color-coded image from the Landsat 8 satellite’s Operational Land Imager shows fire and smoke in the vicinity of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. The red spots indicate active fires. Smoke appears white, and burned areas appear brown. The image was acquired May 5. (Credit: NASA / USGS) Canadian firefighters are still struggling to get…
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Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia viewed from orbit
The VIIRS instrument on the joint NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP weather satellite in polar orbit captured this infrared view of the eye of Hurricane Patricia at 0920 GMT (5:20 a.m. EDT) Friday when the storm had maximum sustained winds of 200 mph. Credit: UW/CIMSS/William Straka III Astronauts on the International Space Station and a fleet of…
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Hurricane Patricia looks scary from space: Satellites track storm as it menaces Mexico
An infrared image from the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument shows the well-defined eye of Hurricane Patricia as of 9:20 GMT Friday. (Credit: NASA / NOAA / CIMSS) Even the International Space Station’s commander is worried about Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm ever tracked by the National Hurricane Center. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is…