Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
BBC (NASA Image): This spectacular night-time view of Earth is called Black Marble.
"It has been assembled from a series of cloud-free images acquired by one of the most capable satellites in the sky today - the Suomi spacecraft. The platform was launched by the US last year, principally to deliver critical meteorological data."
BBC (NASA Image): London in Black Marble!
The Black Marble dataset shows off one of Suomi's key innovations: the low-light sensitivity of its VIIRS instrument" Read more here.