Earth at night
Did you ever wondered how the Earth looks like at night if you were in a spaceship on it’s orbit? Here are the photos.
The photo is actually made up like a puzzle from many other photos all taken during the night. As you (probably) know, when in one place is night on other parts of the world is day, so the puzzle was made from separate nightly pictures taken from different satellites and also when the sky was cloud-free.
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You may observe how North America, Europe and Japan, as more economic developed areas, appear more lighted than other zones. China and India, two of the world economies with the fastest growing rates, are not very far, and then come isolated white spots representing Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Brazil and Argentina. Meanwhile, Africa is in it’s vast majority sunk in darkness except small areas in South Africa and the Mediterranean coastline in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt’s Cairo area.
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This is how Earth actually looks like in a normal day. This picture also is made from pieces taken from different satellites but this was done only in order to get a full view of Earth’s surface.
