Earth at night - Pic

[abernja]

Saw this online and thought it was a cool pic.

Oct 5th 2008

Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible.Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States,and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the centralparts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Everybody keeps asking so...

The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

Source - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081005.htmlhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081005.html

 

[k2theablam]

This is the ultimate HDR photo.

 

[ill legal operation]

@ America tellin' everybody to go green.

Look at us

...

 

[carlosdapaperboy]

right click save as

thanks for my new background OP

.

 

[si3xers55]

coolio

 

[sorkoram]

Remember always checking out this pic in biology class

East coast is going hard

 

[eff ecks]

I always loved this pic. NY is lit.

 

[DownByLaw]

Cool pic

 

[jbug88]

i was just looking for this pic yesterday to show my son.
cool pic.

-J-

 

[t i c a l]

Pretty cool.

- Tical.

 

[youngjedifresh]

how can the earth be entirely dark? it would be daytime on the other side if it was night on the other

 

[cadillacflow]

Nice pic.

 

[abernja]

Originally Posted by youngJEDIFRESH

how can the earth be entirely dark? it would be daytime on the other side if it was night on the other

The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

 

[k2theablam]

Photo was comprised of hudreds of satelite photographs. They took them at different times.

 

[abernja]

Everybody got check out the site it came from and start going picture crazy!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

I could turn this into a space photography appreciation?

 

[k2theablam]

Sounds like a plan. NT's Official astronomy post.

 

[primavera vills]

I love bein' from the East Coast

 

[abernja]

Originally Posted by K2theAblaM

Sounds like a plan. NT's Official astronomy post.

I'll get right on that

 

[dropkicks]

This Pic is

 

[k2theablam]

I'm trying to look for that picture with all the galaxies jumbled into one photo.

That photo was epic.

 

[tuckyachainzn]

yo! I don't get it tho...how could the whole earth be dark since there is time zones and what not?

 

[j0rdan23dunker]

wow. they use a lot of lights in japan.

 

[ebayologist]

Originally Posted by TuckYaChainzN

yo! I don't get it tho...how could the whole earth be dark since there is time zones and what not?

"The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites."

 

[t i c a l]

It's amazing to me that things such as these exist...

Breathtaking.

- Tical.

 

[tuckyachainzn]

Originally Posted by ebayologist

Originally Posted by TuckYaChainzN

yo! I don't get it tho...how could the whole earth be dark since there is time zones and what not?

"The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites."

ohhhhh i see!