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NPP satellite photo Credit: NASA/Suomi NPP/Atmosphere PEATE/Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Liam Gumley

Southeastern United States

January 25, 2012

The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS produced a 'true-color', color scaled, and gray scaled variation of the Southeastern United States. This was taken on January 19, 2012, the first day the full complement of VIIRS' 22 channels were active. These images were acquired between 12:57 pm and 1:04 pm USA EST on 2012/01/19.

Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.

The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS is the primary imaging instrument onboard NPP, and it acquires data in 22 spectral bands covering visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Thunderstorms Over the Southeast US

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Infared view of Thunderstorms
375-m VIIRS infared view of thunderstorms over the southeast U.S. from 21 January at 1900 UTC. Some of the storm-top and boundary layer features that are resolved are pretty incredible.
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GOES-13/VIIRS infared comparison
This GOES-13/VIIRS infared comparison showing how small features such as thunderstorm overshooting tops are resolved with the 375-m VIIRS resolution.
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Thunderstorms over the southeast U.S.
True color image of thunderstorms over the southeast U.S. from January 26.
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