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#58549 02/25/02 02:55 PM
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This came to me in the mail today.. with attached text..
Click here:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is a night photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas. You can scroll East-West and North-South. Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border. Moving east to Europe, there is a high population concentration along the Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Check out the development of Israel compared to the rest of the Arab countries.

Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent". After the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Look at the Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east, the most striking observation is the difference between North and South Korea. Note the density of Japan.

What a piece of photography. It is an absolutely awesome picture of the Earth taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on a perfect night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions.



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What a great picture! What I find most interesting is how clearly you can see the NH and SH icecaps. Their high albedo makes them visible, even during the night. I guess they reflect light from the moon. Wow!


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finally, a photo from space proving the earth is flat!!

-joe (somewhere the sun is shining?) bfstplk

#58552 02/25/02 05:16 PM
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WOW! How very succinct and dramatic. Thanks, Of.


#58553 02/26/02 03:09 AM
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Gobsmacked and godsmacked I am [in awe-e]


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Interesting. I was hoping that it would show relatively intensities, but it doesn't. When I fly into a new country it always seems to be at night. I've divided the world's countries up into "high wattage" and "low wattage" countries. India and Pakistan are low wattage countries, for instance - the lights are dimmer. The US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Zild and Oz are high wattage. Stupid, I know, but ... !



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Fascinating.

There is a bright forward leaning "S" towards the top of the UK. Working from the bottom are the big conurbations (west to east) of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds working up the coast through the North East, past Newcastle and on to Edinburgh and Glasgow, the last part of the "S" goes up to Aberdeen (I think) before fading out into the North of Scotland. It makes me realise why the Scottish Highlands are such a lovely holiday destination - you really can see the sky from there.


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I'm surprised at the size of the "glob" which is St. John's/Mount Pearl/Paradise (population of less than 200,000, total). You can see it on the picture on the easternmost part of Newfoundland (the Avalon peninsula). Instead of seeing just a circular dot for St. John's, which is what I expected, you can see the whole elongated shape of the three contiguous cities, and the surrounding towns along Conception Bay.


#58557 02/26/02 01:43 PM
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Can you see me waving? Towards the bottom left hand side of the world's biggest island. That's me right there!

Excellent oftroy!!

stales


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Stales!!! you coulda had a shave, and for god's sake man , stand up straight!!!! :-)

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