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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