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Weather Satellite Detects Search at
South Korea Ferry Disaster Site
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 off the coast of
South Korea
According to the
University of Wisconsin's satellite blog, 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
The instrument, k**wn as the
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, 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 to the
natural gas drilling boom in **rth Dakota.
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04-28-2014, 10:02 PM
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