Satellite photos of the blackout

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-08-20 02:11am

This is pretty cool:

NOAA POSTS IMAGES ONLINE OF NORTHEAST BLACKOUT

Aug. 15, 2003 — NOAA today posted online satellite images taken before and after of the historic blackout of the Northeastern United States, which plunged millions of people into darkness. NOAA processed the night lights data taken by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). NOAA archives the data from the satellite.

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Night Lights satellite image about 20 hours before the blackout taken Aug. 13, 2003*. (With annotations)

Night Lights satellite image about seven hours after the blackout. (With annotations)

from: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm

* NOAA operates on GMT (or Zulu time, as they call it.) That's why the before picture has a timestamp of 14 Aug 2003 0129Z but is noted as being taken on the 13th.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-20 02:12am

Already posted, and more then once as I recall

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-08-20 02:14am

Sea Skimmer wrote:Already posted, and more then once as I recall

Edit: really? I just looked around and didn't see any satellite photo threads...

Maybe you're thinking of a private forum? Maybe the link is buried in another thread? Maybe...

*wanders off, mumbling to self*

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-20 04:43am

Drewcifer wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Already posted, and more then once as I recall
Edit: really? I just looked around and didn't see any satellite photo threads...

Maybe you're thinking of a private forum? Maybe the link is buried in another thread? Maybe...

*wanders off, mumbling to self*

It's in A&P.

~ver

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-20 04:45am

here

~ver

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-08-20 05:14am

It's a good thing I don't wear glasses, because I'm the type of person that would have them propped up on top of my head, running around saying, "Where the hell are my glasses? I can't find 'em anywhere!"

Anyhow, thanks ver