Above and Beyond: Wildfires by Day and Night
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Nighttime satellite observations revealed the sites of fires on a map of northern Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho.
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Terrestrial Tour: Earth at Night
05:59
At a Glance: United States at Night
01:22
Insight Into: Observing Red Sprites
01:55
Myth vs Reality: Effects of City Lights
00:40
Myth vs Reality: Light Pollution
00:41
Above and Beyond: Wildfires by Day and Night
00:35
Above and Beyond: Global Image of Earth at Night
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Above and Beyond: Italy at Night
00:41
Above and Beyond: Night over Scandinavia
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Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory.
All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA
except:
· Daytime photo of lightning in Arizona courtesy of Wikipedia user ed ouimette
· Photo of oil wells and flare in North Dakota courtesy of Tim Evanson
· Photo of fracking equipment in North Dakota courtesy of Joshua Doubek
· Photo of old and new San Francisco – Oakland Bay bridges courtesy of Frank Schulenburg
· Sea creature illustration copyright The National Library of Israel, Shapell Family Digitization Project _and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography – Historic Cities Research Project
Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
Written by Tracy Vogel
Designed by Marc Lussier
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Text, As fires raged in the northwestern United States in August 2015, daytime satellite observations revealed smoke rising from the flames.
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Nighttime observations revealed the specific sites of the fires, which glowed almost as brightly as the surrounding city lights. A map of northern Oregon, Washington, and northern Idaho shows lit areas around cities and where the fire burned.