SCOUT· 36%48m·2026-11-11·ScienceMapping Humanity From Space: NASA’s Black Marble with Dr. Miguel Román
How can a weather satellite see Ramadan, Christmas and a blackout? Dr. Miguel Román joins Krishna Choudhary to explain NASA's Black Marble: nightly maps of the lights on Earth, from a single band on the VIIRS instrument, processed to account for moonlight, airglow, clouds and atmospheric effects. It began as a…
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