Australia Fires From Space At Night
Four photos of Australia from space before and after the bushfires.
Australia fires from space at night. Photographs and film footage have without a doubt left the world shocked but the view from space shows the scale of what Australians are having to deal with. NASA released the satellites look at New South Wales from Monday. January 8 2014.
ISS astronauts have never seen fires at such terrifying scale. Images from a Maxar Technologies satellite in orbit show red flames visible from space as wildfires burn in a town east of Victoria called Orbost. Australia at night left Burn scars from bushfires right While the lights of the capital cities were clearly visible in the images NASA released this month viewers were more interested in.
Related articles Staggering satellite images show Australia fires from space. We pulled four before-and-after NASA satellite images and asked a bushfire researcher to reflect on the story they tell. The top image above shows the night lights of Australia as observed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS on the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.
NASA Earth ObservatoryNOAA NGDC. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov. In remote places without observers or at night fires can burn for hours before theyre reported.
This is a satellite image of wildfires in Dunalley Tasmania Australia collected on January 6 2013. This nighttime image of Australia was cropped from the Suomi NPP Black Marble released by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in December 2012. The raging bushfires that have destroyed millions of acres of Australian land killed thousands of koalas and perhaps as many as 500 million animals are so.
Australia fires satellite images. The European Space Agencys Sentinel-2 satellite took this image of growing bushfires while passing over Bateman Bay on New Years Eve. The Australian government responded by calling in 3000 reservists to help battle the fires.