# City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016

- By: NASA Earth Observatory
- Date: 2017-04-12
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90008/night-light-maps-open-up-new-applications
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Lights_of_Asia_and_Middle_East_2016.png)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/City_Lights_of_Asia_and_Middle_East_2016.png/1920px-City_Lights_of_Asia_and_Middle_East_2016.png
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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