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Comments on Gigapan: Earth at Night 2012: The Black Marble

  2. This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface...

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  1. rick

    rick (December 13, 2012, 06:37AM )

    dont get it. The lights shown over the west part of australia are in the middle of a desert. Why so many lights? not many inhabitants here.