Ireland was swathed in white on december 22 2010 when the modis instrument aboard the terra satellite passed overhead capturing this true color image.
Satellite image of ireland at night.
Nasa s satellite images of cities at night are awe inspiring with cork dublin el paso and chicago all looking radically different when just their city lights are on show.
Image iss016 e 27034 was taken on february 1 2008 using a 28 mm lens.
Currently the best available map of the earth at night is the black marble map.
The images used to build the map have a scale of about 750 metres per pixel.
Looking east from a location southwest of ireland an astronaut took this nighttime panorama of population centers in ireland and the united kingdom.
The image was made possible by the new satellite s day night band which can spot lighting more accurately than ever before.
What a difference a season makes.
The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe.
It was created with data from the suomi npp satellite using the viirs visible infrared imaging radiometer suite camera.
Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more.
See the latest ireland enhanced weather satellite map including areas of cloud cover.
Previously known as flash earth.
Satellite imagery is particularly valuable because it enables the analysis of objects without being in direct contact with those objects.
The map has been made entirely with black and white photography.
Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map.