Africa really is the Dark Continent!

Link Wray pantychrist at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 19 13:54:20 CST 2002


Yeah, I did. I also wondered why there was no cloud cover.However, one of my 
friends did some snooping on the NASA website and came up with this:

Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your 
favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite 
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. Many large cities are located near rivers or 
oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. 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.

So there ya go.

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