mabelmoments: This Nasa image from a composite assembled from...

mabelmoments:

This Nasa image from a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite shows the Earth’s city lights at night. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands at night. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. The image was made possible by the new satellite’s day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. Picture: Nasa/AP

Video here (thx fatchance):

See that isolated light on the south west coast of Australia… that’s me… suddenly feeling a little lonely.

mabelmoments: This Nasa image from a composite assembled from...