Satellite Image of the Day: June 12, 2007
(click here for previous images of the day from RUSMART)

NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

NOAA's National Hurricane Center

Satellites: NOAA-15, NOAA 16, NOAA 17 and NOAA-18, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

Signs of Life

The darkened areas in these images are major cities in the midwest:
Chicago on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan;
Detroit across the Michigan peninsula;
The cites dotting southern Michigan;
Toledo at the western tip of Lake Erie;
Indianapolis, Dayton, and Columbus all in a line;
Cincinnati near where Ohio meets Kentucky and Indiana;
and even the buildup along I-90 heading east from the Chicago area to Toledo.

Click on the image for a high-resolution version (~260k).