";s:4:"text";s:2117:"VIIRS features daily multi-band imaging capabilities to support the acquisition of high-resolution atmospheric imagery and other instrument products, including visible and infrared imaging of hurricanes and detection of fires, smoke and atmospheric aerosols.
Mission Notice (for related events, please see event log database in the table above): 1/12/2017: Starting from 14 :18 UTC on January 12, 2017, the Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band began to be produced operationally use STAR delivered calibration parameters based on onboard and pitch maneuver data, which were previously delivered by … NASA-NOAA satellite Suomi-NPP, and MODIS Aqua and Terra provide continuous imagery for “AM” at local 10:30am, and “PM” at local 1:30pm. (The satellite repeats its orbital pattern every 16 days.) VIIRS will also be on the JPSS-1 and JPSS-2 satellite missions. NOAA Satellite Maps - Latest 24 Hrs. This is in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin, who is recognized widely as "the father of satellite …