https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/RSS/?TagShow=space|satellites| en hourly 1 https://www.wallpaperfusion.com https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/english-channel-fog-event/25596/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:27:53 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/english-channel-fog-event/25596/ A thick blanket of low clouds covered the English Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea on March 13, 2014. The fog also crept over major cities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The dense fog affected air travel, causing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. In this image, the fog-covered Celtic Sea is located in the southwest. Ireland lies under tendrils of low cloud in the northwest corner of the image. Banks of clouds part around England, near the center of the image, and southern Wales (top and center) completely under the foggy blanket. Fog also creeps over the coasts of France, Belgium and the Netherlands on the east side of the English Channel. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team.]]> A thick blanket of low clouds covered the English Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea on March 13, 2014. The fog also crept over major cities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The dense fog affected air travel, causing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. In this image, the fog-covered Celtic Sea is located in the southwest. Ireland lies under tendrils of low cloud in the northwest corner of the image. Banks of clouds part around England, near the center of the image, and southern Wales (top and center) completely under the foggy blanket. Fog also creeps over the coasts of France, Belgium and the Netherlands on the east side of the English Channel. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/clouds-over-the-blue-earth/6252/ Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:38:07 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/clouds-over-the-blue-earth/6252/ Clouds cover the deep blue water of the Earth.]]> Clouds cover the deep blue water of the Earth.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/the-world/2112/ Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:18:30 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/the-world/2112/ The continents spread out flat.]]> The continents spread out flat.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/earth-from-beyond/5461/ Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:42:15 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/earth-from-beyond/5461/ Earth from beyond the sky.]]> Earth from beyond the sky.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/day-and-night/7477/ Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:01:01 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/day-and-night/7477/ Day and night over a cloudless Earth.]]> Day and night over a cloudless Earth.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-western-hemisphere/149/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-western-hemisphere/149/ A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.]]> A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/hurricane-floyd/3993/ Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:19:53 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/hurricane-floyd/3993/ A satellite image of 1999's Hurricane Floyd.]]> A satellite image of 1999's Hurricane Floyd.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/first-cubesat-deployment/5019/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:23:51 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/first-cubesat-deployment/5019/ A NASA photo of the first time a Cubesat has been deployed from the JAM module on the ISS.]]> A NASA photo of the first time a Cubesat has been deployed from the JAM module on the ISS.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/earth/3868/ Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:51:17 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/earth/3868/ The Earth, completely cloudless.]]> The Earth, completely cloudless.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/30-doradus/1546/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:31:47 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/30-doradus/1546/ 30 Doradus Nebula, 170,000 light-years from Earth.]]> 30 Doradus Nebula, 170,000 light-years from Earth.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/cosmic-microwave-background/534/ Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:54:45 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/cosmic-microwave-background/534/ A WMAP image of the cosmic microwave background.]]> A WMAP image of the cosmic microwave background.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-eastern-hemisphere/157/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-eastern-hemisphere/157/ This image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface from a viewpoint of 10 degrees South by 45 degrees East. The four vertical lines of 'haze' visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or 'glint,' that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense.]]> This image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface from a viewpoint of 10 degrees South by 45 degrees East. The four vertical lines of 'haze' visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or 'glint,' that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/bloom-in-the-ross-sea/153/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/bloom-in-the-ross-sea/153/ Every southern spring and summer, after the Sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species who carve out a living in the cool waters of the far south.
This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011, as viewed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.]]> Every southern spring and summer, after the Sun has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species who carve out a living in the cool waters of the far south.
This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011, as viewed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/clouds-over-the-gulf-of-mexico/150/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/clouds-over-the-gulf-of-mexico/150/ This image was created by NASA's GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NOAA operates the GOES series of satellites that provide continuous weather coverage over the U.S.]]> This image was created by NASA's GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NOAA operates the GOES series of satellites that provide continuous weather coverage over the U.S.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa-satellite-captures-super-bowl-cities-new-york/151/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa-satellite-captures-super-bowl-cities-new-york/151/ Landsat 7 image of New York city acquired August 8, 2002.]]> Landsat 7 image of New York city acquired August 8, 2002.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/northern-gulf-of-mexico/156/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/northern-gulf-of-mexico/156/ One of the most documented dead zones on Earth is in the northern Gulf of Mexico in the summer when solar heating increases the buoyancy of surface waters thereby reducing mixing between the surface and the bottom. Phytoplankton - powered by the same sunlight and fed by a rich nutrient broth flowing out of local rivers - bloom, die, sink, and get re-mineralized by bacteria which use up all the available oxygen in the isolated bottom waters which then become dead zones. NASA image acquired January 3, 2012.]]> One of the most documented dead zones on Earth is in the northern Gulf of Mexico in the summer when solar heating increases the buoyancy of surface waters thereby reducing mixing between the surface and the bottom. Phytoplankton - powered by the same sunlight and fed by a rich nutrient broth flowing out of local rivers - bloom, die, sink, and get re-mineralized by bacteria which use up all the available oxygen in the isolated bottom waters which then become dead zones. NASA image acquired January 3, 2012.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/mackenzie-bay-antarctica/154/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/mackenzie-bay-antarctica/154/ Off the northeastern edge of Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf lies Mackenzie Bay, which was painted with a ghostly blue-green mass in early February 2012. Similarly colored tendrils also streamed northward across the ocean, their flow sometimes interrupted by icebergs.]]> Off the northeastern edge of Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf lies Mackenzie Bay, which was painted with a ghostly blue-green mass in early February 2012. Similarly colored tendrils also streamed northward across the ocean, their flow sometimes interrupted by icebergs.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-white-marble-arctic-view/166/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/blue-marble-2012-white-marble-arctic-view/166/ Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia.]]> Fifteen orbits of the recently launched Suomi NPP satellite provided the VIIRS instrument enough time (and longitude) to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe, and Asia.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/heavy-snow-in-colorado-and-nebraska/152/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/heavy-snow-in-colorado-and-nebraska/152/ A record-breaking snowstorm struck Colorado in early February 2012, closing an interstate highway, grounding flights, and dropping more than a foot of snow on the Denver area. After moving out of northeastern Colorado, the storm left heavy snow across Nebraska. NASA image acquired February 5, 2012.]]> A record-breaking snowstorm struck Colorado in early February 2012, closing an interstate highway, grounding flights, and dropping more than a foot of snow on the Denver area. After moving out of northeastern Colorado, the storm left heavy snow across Nebraska. NASA image acquired February 5, 2012.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa-satellite-captures-super-bowl-cities-indianapolis-2001/158/ Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa-satellite-captures-super-bowl-cities-indianapolis-2001/158/ Landsat 7 image of Indianapolis, Indiana acquired July 11, 2001.]]> Landsat 7 image of Indianapolis, Indiana acquired July 11, 2001.]]>