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Composite Of Earth At Night

Posted by michael on from the wallpaper dept.

crmartin writes "Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is an incredible composite image of Earth from space at night. Actually a composite from many pictures from the Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP), it's like a skeletal view of the Earth in tiny lights. If you really like it, there are hi-res images up to a 40 megabyte TIFF."

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  1. Also of interest by Bob+The+Lizard · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out
    http://www.dfd.dlr.de
    The German Remote Sensing Data Center. DFD

    These guys process sat data etc. Some cool pics here.

    English link at top.
    Go to sat data on left, then gallery.

    G/

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    My Paintball Pics
  2. Re:River Nile and east-russian (rail)road by laurensv · · Score: 5, Informative

    The lines going through eastern Russia (most likely not Russia anymore, but I'm not up to date with the current *stans there), are they based on roads or railroads?
    Yes, the line matches for a big part with the trans siberian railway. You can also notices how Moskou is the centre of a star, Paris has a bit of the same effect in France (both very centralised governments).