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West Virginia’s Dark, Starry Parks

Located in the highlands of the Allegheny Mountains, three new "dark sky parks" are far from the glow of major cities.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by Jeff Ball. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 6, 2022
Data acquired April 24, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Collection:
Earth at Night