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Earth's Night Lights

 

September 15, 2003
Monday - 12:50 am


United States' Night Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP)


The United States is normally ablaze in nighttime light, with its cities growing closer and closer together. NASA researchers used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. Weather stations were classified as urban, near-urban or rural depending on the brightness around them and their records adjusted to account for human influence. These images are actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP).

 

World's Night Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP)

 

Europe's Night Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP)

 

 

   View The Earth's Night Lights' Movie (1.3 MB mpg)

 

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Source of Information & Images:

Goddard Space Flight Center
Web Site


 

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