Earth Revisited.

[littlemissmartypants]

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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.

[blackspade]

1. The light pollution is pretty unbelievable.

Thanks for posting!

[tecelote]

2. When I was a kid I used to say that if aliens viewed the earth...

they would think humankind was a cancer. We drain oil from earth's veins, clear-cut it's life-giving forests and generally pollute the lakes, streams and oceans. All other life can co-exist but humans destroy to survive ultimately causing the death of our host.