•  Earth at Night, NASA photo, November 27, 2000--CLICK photo for NEXT...

This is what the earth looks like at night. Surprisingly, city lights make this task possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.

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