World at night
 

This is a nice pic =/

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

i think i see my house!!!

You can easily see where the "devoloped" countries are...

Australia and NZ are "developed", just like Canada. It simply doesn't show up too well, since they don't seem too addicted to electricity.

Wheres all the lights in Antartica?

The east side of USA has the most lights.

africsa is desolated lmao look at it only south africa has lights , the other sparkles are campfires from indians

lol !!
Are you serious ?




It's because most of 80% of Australian territory is a desert...

Right around the left side of Lake Michigan, there is a bright area, I contributed! :)

Big dots = Power plants

i see hoover dam near arizona/nevada =o

and i see a certain nuclear plant too =p


Chruser brought up an itresting point, see those 2 lights by madagasgar in the ocean? those are huge... power supplys... secret military bases? nucleur siloS? why would 2 TINY isalnds off the coast of madagasgar have that much power? =0

I hope its a given that those lights are added, I mean, if you can see the enitre US and Canada from a Satellite like that your not gonna be seeing lights like that.

Plus, the whole world isnt dark at once, ever, so I'm assuming its seperate pictures merged together.

prolly, but still its by NASA =p

Yeah, that and the whole "Earth is Round" thing.

Actually, these 2 islands are :
- Mauritius
- A french overseas department called " L'ile de la Reunion".


The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated.
In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region.



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

utah? how boring

The reason why the whole west side of China is 'dark' is due to the vast elavated mountain surroundings. The people who chose to live there (Gologs) are practically cut off from the modern world.

theres like not a single lite in antartica =( i wanna build the first major antartica city and name it Yungville

yungville? bah what about

penguinapollis

you bet mos tof the citizens there r penguins

good old canada, dark so I can sleep better

canada? developed? lolololol:O) :O) :O) :O) :O)