Africa really is the Dark Continent!

[Peter Fellows-MCCully]

Anybody else wonder how they managed to take the "photograph"
while it was dark everywhere on the planet?

pfm

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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of barbara100 at jps.net
> Sent: 18 January 2002 22:20
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Africa really is the Dark Continent!
> 
> 
> as forwared from a friend:  
> 
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
> 
> This is really a sight to behold! The image is a panoramic view of the
> world from the new space station. It is a night photo with the lights
> clearly indicating the populated areas.
> You can scroll East-West and North-South. Note that Canada's
> population is almost exclusively along the US border. Moving east to
> Europe, there is a high population concentration along the 
> Mediterranean
> Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Check
> out the development of Israel compared to the rest of the 
> Arab countries.
> Note the Nile River and the rest of Africa. After the Nile, the lights
> don't
> come on again until Johannesburg. Look at the Australian Outback and
> the Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east, the most striking 
> observation
> is the difference between North and South Korea.  Note the  density of
> Japan.
> What a piece of photography. 
> It is an absolutely awesome picture of the Earth
> taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on a 
> perfect night
> with no obscuring atmospheric conditions.
> 
> 
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