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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Earth at Night
The influence humans have had on their planet can be seen from space. Viewing Earth at night, we see the lights of countless villages, towns, and cities. Fires from slash-and-burn farming and the burn-off of natural gas in oil fields appear in red and yellow. This perspective unveils the breadth of human activity on Earth. It spans the globe.
An image showing Earth's light sources on a rotating globe, where white represents stable urban lights and fire data is shown in red and yellow.
Metadata
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Sensor
DMSP/OLS -
Animation ID
556 -
Video ID
SVS1999-0001 -
Start Timecode
01:10:19:02 -
End Timecode
01:11:12:15 -
Animator
Alex Kekesi -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
1999/01/21 -
Scientist
Christopher Elvidge (NOAA/NGDC), Kimberly Baugh (NOAA/NGDC), Marc Imhoff (NASA/GSFC) -
Keywords
Night lights -
DLESE Subject
Natural hazards, Human geography -
Data Date
1994/10 - 1995/03 -
Pao ID
G03-046 -
Animation Type
Regular