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Shine bright like a diamond
The images were made possible by Suomi NPP satellite's “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. - Text and photos by Agencies
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