Africa really is the Dark Continent!

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

And the people who go wow, see all the pretty lights and swoon over the
light pollution are the same people who used to admire billowing
smokestacks and see them as symbols of "progress", whatever that may be.
..
Must be a composite picture, BTW

Arne


Peter Fellows-MCCully wrote:
> 
> Anybody else wonder how they managed to take the "photograph"
> while it was dark everywhere on the planet?
> 
> pfm
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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