Space earth europe lights. Deserts in africa arabia australia mongolia and the united states are poorly lit as well except along the coast along with the boreal forests of canada and russia and the great mountains of the himalaya. The picture was taken by members of the space stations expedition 30 crew on jan. Each white dot on the map represents the light of a city fire ship at sea oil well flare or other light source. From western europe to western africa.
Looking at earth at night from space turns the planets extremely varied and complex surface into a much simpler view of light and dark. Nasa researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. With hardware from the earth orbiting international space station appearing in the near foreground a night time european panorama reveals city lights from belgium and the netherlands at bottom center. Space reloaded 2354913 views.
The interior jungles of africa and south america are mostly dark but lights are beginning to appear there. The sequence of shots was taken from may 22 2012 from 110604 to 111605 gmt on a pass the north atlantic ocean west of portugal to northern cameroon. This new image of europe africa and the middle east at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the suomi npp satellite in april and october 2012. The brightest areas of the earth are the most urbanized but not necessarily the most populated compare western europe with china and india.
Top 50 city lights seen from space duration. The new data was mapped over existing blue marble imagery of earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. It is a map of the location of lights on earths surface. The full earth image is shown below along with detail images of the united states europe and africa south america asia and australia.
This video was taken by the crew of expedition 31 on board the international space station. The northern lights result when charged particles streaming from the sun collide with molecules high up in earths atmosphere exciting these molecules and causing them to glow. The ghostly outlines of continents laced with webs of.