Suomi NPP Captures the Solar Eclipse - 21 August 2017
23 August 2017 - For the first time in almost 100 years
a total solar eclipse passed over the contiguous US from the Pacific to the
Atlantic. This is also the first American solar eclipse of the JPSS era,
and fortunately the Suomi NPP satellite flew over the path of
totality as it cross the Southeastern United States. S-NPP teams have
contributed interesting images and data artifacts of the eclipse from
the OMPS, VIIRS, and CrIS instruments, and the images at right show the
impact of the eclipse on S-NPP data.