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 MrsA rated 28 months ago - Now this is an interesting site. It shows more than you might realize upon first glance. In this day and age, there is electricity where there are people. So you see those lights and know that there is a population large enough to produce enough light to be seen from space. Then another thing to ...
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- mustafaturan1 rated 14 months ago
- wow, Nile river seems amazing..
- Austin-Medic rated 28 months ago
- What was most interesting to me is that the "Dark Continent" is literally....dark. I would like to see this picture overlaid with a map of global income levels, I'm sure the correspondence would be very high.
- JduPee rated 28 months ago
- The original is at http://visibleEarth.nasa.gov in a much higher resolution ;-)
- JohnShepler rated 28 months ago
- Man, those Americans use a lot of electricity. Oh, wait. That's US !!!
- erithbabalon rated 15 months ago
- Makes me laugh.. the three brightest, shiniest concentrations of night-light on the map: the US, Japan... and a small but noisy little island called Britain.
- eisham rated 15 months ago
- The world at night..
- larelle rated 28 months ago
- Amazing which countries you can pick out. Man, how much light does Japan use?! Tha African night sky must just look brilliant.
- LordHiestand rated 18 months ago
- Go the entire east side of America.
- ElectroNUT1978 rated 28 months ago
- I love these kinds of pics! Though it does show extensive light pollution, which is detrimental to the sanity of any astronomer, amateur or professional, you can also have fun tracing civilizations and such. Also, I've found it is fun to try and find your locale on this image.
As MrsA says, you can easily see where the most populous areas are on the planet, and also where it would be difficult to live because of rugged mountains, or oceans ;) I do find it interesting, though, to see so many little dots littered around the oceans. Fun stuff!!!
 LeviticusMky rated 28 months ago- Seen it before, everywhere, at better quality and resolution.
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