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Puerto Rico's Lights After Hurricane Maria
Mean night-time light over Puerto Rico, nW/cm²/sr, monthly
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Source: NASA Black Marble VNP46A3 (LAADS DAAC), monthly moonlight- and atmosphere-corrected night-time radiance from VIIRS on Suomi NPP. Palanor calculation: the area-weighted mean over each place's land, built by NASA from clear, snow-free nights, with pixels that had none filled with their latest good value; only light at or above 2 nW/cm²/sr counts, which leaves out a faint background glow in recent years. Boundaries: Natural Earth. Hurricane Maria struck on 20 September 2017 and took down the island's grid; power was not fully restored until August 2018.
Puerto Rico from space before and after Hurricane Maria: the lights went out in the autumn of 2017 and came back over the following year as the grid was rebuilt.
What this chart reads
- Night Lights: Puerto Rico (NASA Black Marble, monthly)as “Puerto Rico”latest 2019-12-01
Sources
Night Lights: Puerto Rico (NASA Black Marble, monthly). Source: NASA Black Marble VNP46A3, collection 2 (VIIRS/NPP Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Monthly L3 Global 15 arc-second, doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A3.002), from NASA's LAADS DAAC. NASA Earth science data have no restrictions on use or redistribution (CC0). Boundaries: Natural Earth 10m (public domain). Palanor calculation; NASA does not endorse it. Refreshed from a GitHub Actions job that reads only the radiance, quality and land layers and stores no imagery.
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