SEE HOW INDIA LOOKS FROM SPACE ON DIWALI NIGHT
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NASA, the national space organization of the U.S., on
Thursday discharged a high contrast satellite symbolism of India Diwali night
2012, advised individuals against the fake picture available for use on the
online networking.
"On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging
Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite caught this evening
perspective of southern Asia," NASA said discharging a photo of India on
this Diwali night.
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"The picture depends on information gathered by the
VIIRS 'day-night band', which distinguishes light in a scope of wavelengths
from green to close infrared. The picture has been lit up to make the city
lights less demanding to recognize," it said.
NASA said the vast majority of the splendid zones in the
symbolism discharged by it are urban communities and towns in India.
"India is home to more than 1.2 billion individuals and has 30 urban areas
with populaces more than 1 million," it said.
Urban communities in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan are likewise
obvious close to the edges of the picture.
"A picture that cases to demonstrate the locale lit for
Diwali has been circling via web-based networking media sites and the Internet
as of late. Actually, it doesn't demonstrate what it claims.
That picture, in light of information from the Operational
Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
satellites, is a shading—composite made in 2003 by NOAA researcher Chris
Elvidge to highlight populace development after some time," NASA said.
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"In that picture, white zones demonstrate city lights
that were obvious preceding 1992, while blue, green, and red shades show city
lights that got to be unmistakable in 1992, 1998, and 2003 separately," it
said.
"As a general rule, any additional light created amid
Diwali is subtle to the point that it is likely impalpable when seen from
space," NASA said.