Cities at Night (Large)

[MrScorpio]

Courtesy of NASA: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. k

[conscious evolution]

2. When ever people say to me

that you can't see human made objects from space I like to show them photos like this.Every light you see is a human made object.They are called towns and cities.

[WeDidIt]

3. North Korea is nearly completely dark. n/t

[MrScorpio]

5. There are about a billion people on the continent of Africa

Despite that size, it's remarkable how dark it is

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Curious how the lower Nile is so clearly defined, very bright.

Of course, something like 80% of Egypt's population lives within 10 miles of the river.

[MrScorpio]

20. I noticed that too nt

[fishwax]

22. yeah, that is remarkable -- you can also trace out a few major highways in the U.S.

though not as distinctly as the Nile ...

[Jennicut]

4. I live on the East Coast. I was told when I went to a planetarium show

at Mystic Seaport (in Connecticut) that seeing stars at night on the East Coast is one of the most difficult places in the world to see the stars because it has some of the highest light pollution. It is a bummer. Great proximity to NYC and Boston where I live but hard to see the stars at night.

[pipi_k]

6. Lovely and scary at the same time n/t

[FarCenter]

7. It is a huge waste of energy

Millions of tons of CO2 are going into the atmosphere just to send light up into the night sky.

[shraby]

8. How come it's night time all over the world at the same time

in this photo? Half the world is in daytime while the other half is in nighttime. Splain to me please.

[MrScorpio]

The giant alien spaceship that took the picture for NASA was big enough to block out the Sun

That's all

[shraby]

21. Good one!

:rofl: :rofl:
I never thought of time-lapse. duh

[sharp_stick]

9. Time lapse photos

taken during the night at each position and then spliced together into a single file.

I love this picture, it's been a favorite of mine for awhile now.

[justabob]

10. I hate it that I can no longer see stars at night

I live more or less in the center of the DFW blob of light and even on the darkest night can only see a handful of stars.

[pipi_k]

15. I never knew how many stars there are in the night sky

until I moved out to where I am now.

Not a streetlight around for miles, and the nearest big cities are 20 miles in either direction.

On moonless nights it is totally black here. When there's a full moon, it casts an almost ethereal silver light over everything.


I think everyone should have the chance to experience this.

:)

[Blue_Tires]

18. +1000

[LeftinOH]

11. Apparently, South Korea is an island -n/t

[Brickbat]

12. Gorgeous.

Nice and dark around my place. I like it that way.

[Silent3]

13. I took a trip to Zambia in 2001 to see an eclipse

As you see from this map, with Zambia being in central Africa, there's a good reason that the night sky was a beautiful thing to see while there, an unexpected bonus on top of seeing my first total solar eclipse.

[ellie]

14. Pretty!

I'm stealing this to put on my Facebook page, OK?

[Shanti Mama]

16. Does anyone else notice that weird red glow

near Wasilla? Wonder what's causing it?

I live at the very top of the India, just below that dark area where the Himalayas begin, and then the Tibetan plateau. Gorgeous star gazing here.

[Blue_Tires]

19. so NASA is looking in my bedroom windows at night?

:crazy:

I'm willing to bet that the meaning of life can be found in that huge dark area in the middle of Australia...