Earth's Night Lights
September 15, 2003
Monday - 12:50 am
United States' Night
Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program
(DMSP)
The United States is normally ablaze in nighttime light, with
its cities growing closer and closer together. NASA researchers
used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around
urban areas. Weather stations were classified as urban, near-urban
or rural depending on the brightness around them and their records
adjusted to account for human influence. These images are actually
a composite of hundreds of pictures made by U.S. Defense Meteorological
Satellites Program (DMSP).
World's Night Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program
(DMSP)
Europe's Night Lights
Image credit: NASA/U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites Program
(DMSP)
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Source of Information &
Images:
Goddard Space Flight Center
Web Site
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