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Title: Earth at night
Post by: Sandman on August 23, 2004, 11:31:43 AM
This sort of pic has been done before, but this is a recent view.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Saintaw on August 23, 2004, 11:38:24 AM
thx for the wallpaper :)

This reminds me how dark Siberia looked when I flew over it when comming back from Japan. totaly different from the rest of the world (x'cept for the sea of course...)
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Boroda on August 23, 2004, 11:50:30 AM
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Originally posted by Saintaw
thx for the wallpaper :)

This reminds me how dark Siberia looked when I flew over it when comming back from Japan. totaly different from the rest of the world (x'cept for the sea of course...)


You can't expect to see the light where noone lives... You can see railway lines through Siberia on this image. Even BAM (north of Baikal lake) is visible! Frankly speaking I am surprised by the lights that are relatively dense East of Urals...

For me the most interesting part of this image is North Korea. It's dark not because they don't have elecricity but because they turn of the light simultaneously...
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Edbert on August 23, 2004, 11:53:10 AM
That is not a recent picture, see the date of 2002? Still pretty cool even after seeing it 100 times though. You can clearly see which parts of the globe have a thriving economy.
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Sixpence on August 23, 2004, 11:56:08 AM
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Originally posted by Boroda
You can't expect to see the light where noone lives... You can see railway lines through Siberia on this image. Even BAM (north of Baikal lake) is visible! Frankly speaking I am surprised by the lights that are relatively dense East of Urals...


"The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites." That might be the source of so much light?
Title: Earth at night
Post by: hawker238 on August 23, 2004, 12:01:38 PM
I found South Korea.
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Nilsen on August 23, 2004, 12:02:05 PM
nice one sandman...thx
Title: Earth at night
Post by: BlueJ1 on August 23, 2004, 01:04:49 PM
check out the nile, pretty cool.
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Saurdaukar on August 23, 2004, 04:34:42 PM
I see my house!
Title: Earth at night
Post by: Mini D on August 23, 2004, 05:13:00 PM
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Originally posted by hawker238
I found South Korea.
According to that map, South Korea is the island just west of Japan.

I've seen one more detailed that just showed North vs South Korea.  I understand Siberia not having any lights, but not a populated portion of land such as North Korea.
Title: Earth at night
Post by: B17Skull12 on August 23, 2004, 06:27:22 PM
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Originally posted by Mini D
According to that map, South Korea is the island just west of Japan.

I've seen one more detailed that just showed North vs South Korea.  I understand Siberia not having any lights, but not a populated portion of land such as North Korea.
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For me the most interesting part of this image is North Korea. It's dark not because they don't have elecricity but because they turn of the light simultaneously...