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PIA02991: Global City Lights
The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America are dark and lightly populated in this image created in 2000 by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) 
 Spacecraft:  Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
 Product Size:  2400 x 1200 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Goddard Space Flight Center 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02991.tif (3.269 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02991.jpg (250.4 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Global city lights. The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while the interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America remain (for now) dark and lightly populated. (Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. Based on data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program).

For more information on this image, please visit NASA's Earth Observatory site.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/GSFC

Image Addition Date:
2000-11-09