I just reproduced an extract below, but the full earth picture is available at Incredimazing. This picture shows:

• City lights
• Natural gas flares
• Wildfires
• Fishing fleet lights

This picture is based on:

• Nasa’s Visible Earth map, 2001: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
• Lights data source: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, 1994-1995: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/maps.html

Earth at Night | Incredimazing via kwout

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