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City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016
2017-04-12
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90008/night-light-maps-open-up-new-applications
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
This image shows Earth’s night lights as observed in 2016; they are drawn from a 2016 global composite map that was added to Worldview and GIBS. The compositing technique selected the best cloud-free nights in each month over each land mass. (Note that clouds and sunlight are added to the image for aesthetic effect; those data are drawn from the Blue Marble products.) Instrument: Suomi NPP - VIIRS
