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04-28-2014, 10:02 PM
Advanced Weather Satellite Detects Search at South Korea Ferry Disaster Site
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The Suomi NPP weather satellite, which is part of NASA's next generation of earth-observing satellites, detected the nighttime recovery operations underway to find victims and survivors of the deadly ferry accident (http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/south-korea-prime-minister-resigns/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) off the coast of South Korea
According to the University of Wisconsin's satellite blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/15420), a specialized light-sensitive instrument aboard the satellite picked up the bright lights of the nighttime search operations on April 22
See also: South Korean Coast Guard Releases Dramatic Footage of Sunken Ferry (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/south-korea-sunk-ferry-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The instrument, k**wn as the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/viirs.html), or VIIRS, which is a scanning radiometer that collects visible and infrared imagery and radiometric measurements of the Earth, has also captured unique images of everything from Hurricane Sandy at night (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79545) to the natural gas drilling boom (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79810) in **rth Dakota. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/weather-satellit-search-for-south-korea-ferry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Korea (http://mashable.com/category/korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Nasa (http://mashable.com/category/nasa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Satellite (http://mashable.com/category/satellite/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), South Korea (http://mashable.com/category/south-korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Q4Ps4rHpDu8
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The Suomi NPP weather satellite, which is part of NASA's next generation of earth-observing satellites, detected the nighttime recovery operations underway to find victims and survivors of the deadly ferry accident (http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/south-korea-prime-minister-resigns/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) off the coast of South Korea
According to the University of Wisconsin's satellite blog (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/15420), a specialized light-sensitive instrument aboard the satellite picked up the bright lights of the nighttime search operations on April 22
See also: South Korean Coast Guard Releases Dramatic Footage of Sunken Ferry (http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/south-korea-sunk-ferry-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The instrument, k**wn as the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/viirs.html), or VIIRS, which is a scanning radiometer that collects visible and infrared imagery and radiometric measurements of the Earth, has also captured unique images of everything from Hurricane Sandy at night (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79545) to the natural gas drilling boom (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79810) in **rth Dakota. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/28/weather-satellit-search-for-south-korea-ferry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Korea (http://mashable.com/category/korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Nasa (http://mashable.com/category/nasa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Satellite (http://mashable.com/category/satellite/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), South Korea (http://mashable.com/category/south-korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Q4Ps4rHpDu8