By Claire
NASA has just released a series of images taken by one of NASA’s satellites of the Earth at night.
The images show a network of city lights, wild fires, gas flares and fishing boats, illustrating the pattern of human settlement across the Earth.
The images were taken using the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which is sensitive enough to detect the nocturnal glow produced by Earth’s atmosphere and the light from a single ship in the sea. These images have been stitched together to produce a composite image of the planet, titled “The Black Marble“.
See the full suite of images here.
Some of the pictures were already released a few days ago on a German website, saying that West Australia obviously is more populated than the East…Now you know how much Germans know about Australia
Apparently the bustling metropolises in WA were bush fires.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/big-pic-lost-cities-of-western-australia-121213.html