Awesome new satellite photo of the earth!!

[Visionray]

The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is a night photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas. You can scroll East-West and North-South.

Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border. Moving east to Europe, there is a high population concentration along the Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Check out the development of Israel compared to the rest of the Arab countries.

Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent". After the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Look at the Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east, the most striking observation is the difference between North and South
Korea.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...s_dmsp_big.jpg

[NerdInside]

WOW! THERE I AM!

[stevy99]

awesome pic! look how dark it is in the middle of australia and russia, tseee, but there's still a lot of people living there in the north of russia!

[snoop_doug]

wonderful picture visionray

the UK sure is mighty bright at night

[marcus_from_hell]

need more lights in austrialia

[wouter999]

Amazing ... If you look close you can even see Jezza's butt marked with lights to prevent collisions!!!

[wouter999]

And visionray, why wont you answer on AIM?

[DutchDesign]

i can see my house!

[aversion]

hmmm, you see the big island of the coast of east africa (madagascar)? go up and to the right and there's a single white dot? That's where i grew up

[eastb]

Wow, belgium is like on big light!
the coast are cool!

[marcus_from_hell]

Originally posted by aversion

(madagascar)? go up and to the right and there's a single white dot? That's where i grew up

[/B]

man i never ever heard a single news or any thing about that country... does any thing happens there or no?

[CrashedStar]

great pic, but i'm sure i've seen this before???

about 2/3 months ago... not trying to piss on your bonfire, just curious if its a new one?

cs

[Fadzter]

fantastic visionary !!

how'd they do it !!!
coz it's definately not dark across the whole globe.

possibly a mosaic of different snaps taken of different places in one time zone ??

[aversion]

Originally posted by Fadzter
fantastic visionary !!

how'd they do it !!!
coz it's definately not dark across the whole globe.

possibly a mosaic of different snaps taken of different places in one time zone ??

they probably just whipped it up in photoshop

[DutchDesign]

Originally posted by eastb

Wow, belgium is like on big light!

that's because belgians always forget to put the lights out when they go asleep

[snoop_doug]

Originally posted by CrashedStar
just curious if its a new one?

look at the bottom right corner of the photo

[sikonyte]

japan looks quite cool there, they must have hell load of lights there (tech stuff etc)

hey aversion see that that island on the left side of europe? thats where i am growing up

i wonder how much teh US citezins pay for electricity bills?
you yanks really do need to turn out the luights once and a while, mind you the whole of europe is lit up. and you aussies, cor you really do need some more lights


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hey wait a second that picture is well over a year old maybe you aussies have gotten a few more l;ights nowadays??

[mcinnes]

Yeah, I've seen this before too. At least a year or so ago. Still, it's way cool. The corridor between Boston and Washington really stands out, and you can see the shape of Cape Cod. And what the hell are those two dots to the right of Madagascar? UFOs?

[slinky2000]

this is truely an amazing and beautiful pic!

[thewiz1972]

Originally posted by CrashedStar
great pic, but i'm sure i've seen this before???

about 2/3 months ago... not trying to piss on your bonfire, just curious if its a new one?

cs

Yeah, I posted it a while ago. It's a beautiful pic though and well worth rehashing.