I know this is off topic, but if you look at this site using your 
Linux machine then it's close to the topic? ! ;)

However, this is a really great photo of the earth at night.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg





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. After
enlarging the picture, you can scroll East-West and North-South.

  Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. 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 the "Dark Continent".

  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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