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- By Dashiell Bennett
- Atlantic Wire
- December 6, 2012
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NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC
NASA has unveiled some beautiful new pictures of the entire Earth shrouded in darkness, but lit up from below by street lights, wildfires, and the faint glow of moonlight. The images are composites of thousands and thousands of photos gathered by the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, which uses a new kind of infrared camera to detect light sources that previously were not always visible from space. It took the satellite 312 orbits to capture quality images of every spot on Earth, and months of computer crunching to assemble to shots.
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There's also this new close-up image of the lower 48, showing our nationwide power grid hard at work. One thing that sticks out for us is the surprisingly large bright spot in what appears to be an otherwise dark North Dakota. Could that be the state's exploding oil industry working overtime?
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