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NASA releases stunning photos of Earth at night

101 点作者 amima超过 12 年前

16 条评论

yakiv超过 12 年前
Does anyone know why there's such a grid-like pattern of lights in the midwest of the US?
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D_Alex超过 12 年前
What the heck is going on in the middle of Australia? There is NOTHING there (not even stuff that might burn!), yet the map shows a pile of lights.
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lkozma超过 12 年前
While I find these images extremely interesting, let me add a contrarian voice: the associations that such night-time photos bring up in me are primarily about waste and habitat destruction.
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koushikn超过 12 年前
How bright should lights be to turn up on this? Why can't we see Aircraft carriers/Big merchant vessels or offshore oil wells or even research stations on the Antartic?
pserwylo超过 12 年前
One interesting place is down the south of Argentina, off the east coast. Although there is no land there, there is the (almost spiral) pattern of lights in the ocean. They seem about as bright as Melbourne, and more expansive.<p>I was told once that these are fishermen, who tend to congregate in one area at night time. I'm not sure if it is for social reasons, or business reasons, or something else.
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FrojoS超过 12 年前
It would be great to have this integrated into a mapping software lige google maps, next to the existing day time satellite layer. For instance, this would be useful to find good spots for watching the stars at night or to find remote camping spots or hiking areas.
lmkg超过 12 年前
I've seen heatmaps of the population density of the USA before, so I shouldn't be surprised. But seeing the city lights at night... I feel like that's a real fact now, not just an abstraction.
jlgreco超过 12 年前
Interesting things in both images:<p>In the world map you can clearly see where North Korea is: just look for the really clean line. Pretty depressing.<p>On the US map, west of New Jersey (or south-west of NYC, if that is easier to find), you can somewhat faintly see that the light outlines the shape of the Appalachian Mountains. Check out the Google maps relief map of Pennsylvania as a comparison: <a href="http://goo.gl/7xsN9" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/7xsN9</a>
moreati超过 12 年前
If you enjoy these, and you have BBC iPlayer I highly recommend the 3 part Supersized Earth <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00zy57x/Supersized_Earth_A_Place_to_Live/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00zy57x/Supersized_Ear...</a> for more scary/wow Anthropocene material.
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drakeandrews超过 12 年前
Having lived inside London for the past year and a half, the M25 is a decent psychological barrier between London and the rest of the country but seeing it as a pretty distinct glowing line was something else.
perone超过 12 年前
Mirror ? The link is down.
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martingordon超过 12 年前
Does anyone know what the dark area on the FL/GA border is? I never realized it was unpopulated and Google Maps doesn't give much information about the area as a whole.
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hcarvalhoalves超过 12 年前
Love how I'm in 2012 and my computer still chokes to open a 8MB JPEG. Wonderful images though.
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somid3超过 12 年前
its postings like these that inspire me to think that the internet and the web is just a means of a global communication tool to create unity -- thanks.
wololo超过 12 年前
fyi, the mysterious cluster of lights in northwest Siberia (Yamalia) is Gazprom
ygmelnikova超过 12 年前
They need to host this site on a Raspberry Pi.