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NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

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WASHINGTON-- Scientists unveiled today an extraordinary new appearance at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a brand-new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the radiance of natural and human-built sensations throughout the planet in higher information than ever before. Numerous satellites are geared up to look at Earth throughout the day, when they could observe our planet totally illuminated by the sunlight. With a new sensor onboard the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite launched last year, researchers now could observe Earth's atmosphere and surface throughout nighttime hours. The new sensor, the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), is sensitive enough to identify the nocturnal radiance produced by Earth's atmosphere and the light from a single ship in the sea.

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Mitch Goldberg

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Sentiment	Quote
0.0354344	"The use of the day-night band by the National Weather Service is growing," said Mitch Goldberg, ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0354344 Mean: 0.0354344 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Miller

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Relevance: 0.281102

Sentiment	Quote
0.133143	"It's like having three simultaneous low-light cameras operating at once and we pick the best of various cameras, depending on where we're looking in the scene," Miller said. ...
-0.273375	"The night is nowhere as dark as we might think," Miller said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.140232 Mean: -0.070116 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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• John Franklin Miller (California): dbpedia

Steve Miller

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Relevance: 0.264635

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0	"For all the reasons that we need to see Earth during the day, we also need to see Earth at night," said Steve Miller, ...
0	"For all the reasons that we need to see Earth during the day, we also need to see Earth at night," said Steve Miller, a researcher at NOAA's Colorado State University Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. "Unlike humans, the Earth never sleeps."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0 Mean: 0 Standard Deviation: 0

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• Steve Miller (columnist)
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• Steve Miller (columnist): yago

James Gleason

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0.154303	"The remarkable day-night band images from Suomi NPP have impressed the scientific community and exceeded our pre-launch expectations," said James Gleason, ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.154303 Mean: 0.154303 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Organization: National Weather Service

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• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Organization: NASA

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• NASA
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• NASA: umbel
• NASA: opencyc
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Organization: NPP

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Relevance: 0.30362

GeographicFeature: Earth

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City: San Francisco

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