Nice picture, no doubt. I love it! I just have one question (please ignore my skepticism). How did they manage to get a night picture of _all_ the earth? What about the time difference between continents? Is it a combined picture taken several times? Am I an idiot in astronomy? Let's say, when it's midnight here in Baton Rouge, it noon in Russia... you get the picture
Please enlighten me. (absolutely no sarcasm here) Giovanni Tairov >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. --
