Satellite captures moonlit Hurricane Isaac

Slideshow: Isaac moves inland

Eric Gay / AP

Hurricane Isaac makes second landfall, floods coastal communities, but levees still hold.

Launch slideshow

Just after midnight on Aug. 28, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast. The VIIRS “day-night band,” detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals. In this case, the clouds of Isaac were lit by moonlight.

NASA Earth Observatory

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Comment author avatarF Ramey

Weather shapes our planet

    Reply#1 - Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:55 AM EDT
    Comment author avatarhomesick yank

    Totally cool! And enjoy it while you can....Republicans want to cut government spending, and this kind of thing must go!

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    Reply#2 - Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:14 AM EDT
    Comment author avatarshanaldo-869841

    OMG...Really? Private sector will pay for this and much of the new technology you will enjoy. Have a great day!

      #2.1 - Sun Sep 2, 2012 11:20 AM EDT
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      Comment author avatarhomesick yank

      btw, if you want to know more about the satellite which carries the camera which took the pic, check out http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/newsroom.html

        Reply#3 - Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:20 AM EDT
        Comment author avatar4everphillyfan

        Why do people comments bring politics into something beautiful as seeing Satrn and iit's moon? This is facinating and knowlelgeable.

          Reply#4 - Mon Sep 3, 2012 4:06 AM EDT
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