美国宇航局发布夜晚地球的惊艳动画

旧金山—这个极其详细的夜晚地球360度全景是在12月5日美国地球物理联合会会议的演示中揭示的。

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旧金山—这个极其详细的夜晚地球360度全景是在12月5日美国地球物理联合会会议的演示中揭示的。美国宇航局拼接了由新的可见红外成像辐射仪套件 (VIIRS) 卫星拍摄的两个月的影像,以创建完全无云的夜晚星球视图。

VIIRS 的分辨率比以往任何光感卫星精细六倍。VIIRS 不仅可以辨别城市灯光,还可以辨别来自工业场所、火灾、天然气燃烧和海上船只的光线。美国宇航局和 NOAA 已经开始测试该卫星将实现的众多应用。该观测站将帮助改进天气预报,通过绘制夜间云层图;跟踪夜间野火的移动;并在漫长黑暗的冬季绘制整个北极地区的冰、雪和云。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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