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Wed Dec 5, 2012, 05:08 PM Dec 2012

NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

This new global view and animation of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.



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NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night (Original Post) jsr Dec 2012 OP
A great view of the guilty parties in global warming. eom Mika Dec 2012 #1
k&r MrNice100 Dec 2012 #2
LMSP kicking...n/t littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #3
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