Earth At Night - Continents
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i think those are google earth pick
Pretty cool!
Thats soo fake!!
whoa intense
PHOTOSHOPPED!
These are clearly not photographs. No clouds are present, and we have no spacecraft in position to take such photographs (near-Earth orbits like the ones our satellites occupy are too close to Earth to capture an entire hemisphere; geostationary satellites are further but only orbit over the Equator). I would guess these were generated in Celestia or a similar program.
uhh, one of your pictures has “antartica” as a caption, i believe that’s the north pole considering antarctica isn’t actually connected to any other continents…
If these are from space then where is the sun? If these are real then where is earth’s atmosphere and weather?
These are just computer simulations, they aren’t real pictures.
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Taken from space? These are TEXTURES taken from space, the non-cloudy ones stitched together and mapped onto a sphere. And the lights look like they’re just point sprites. A real-life snapshot wouldn’t really look like this. You’d barely be able to make out the continents in the darkness and the lights would be a much softer golden-reddish color, becoming much harder to spot towards the horizon where the line of sight cuts through a great deal of atmosphere.
Do you really believe this is how Earth looks like from space at night?
Obviously these are not really photographs of the earth, though they may be based upon such photographs. So many things wrong, but probably the first clue is that there are no clouds…
That looks amazing, pretty much shows you the places on earth that have the densest population. Take a look at the difference between Europe and North Africa…
That picture is something…it makes you wonder whats holding the earth up in space…I know its gravity but it still amaze me.
breathtaking
The one labelled “Antarctica” is actual a picture of the North Pole and Arctic area.
I can’t believe that even after making it into the front page of digg nobody has brought up the fact that the image of ‘antartica’ is incorrect. That is the Artic (North Pole), not Antartic (South Pole).
These are great as pieces of art. These are graphics and composites, and in fact they are impossible as straight photos, because of the missing clouds, and other details
For example the Northern Hemisphere shot is completely impossible because the Sun is never 100% absent from the Northern hemisphere. It is a work of art., and should not be presented as natural photographs/
Not real pics taken from space, but impressive indeed.
This looks like Google Earth and not satellite photos….
Amazing.. it doesn’t seem like there’s a cloud anywhere on earth. Must have been taken on one of those days when the sun had set on both hemispheres at the same time. The stars don’t move either.
why do people even try this. how can all the places be in dark all the time… horrible work of photoshop
Great pictures! Pictures of this type really drive home where the economic areas of activity of the world are located!
Since I live in the United States, guess which picture I’m going to add to my wallpaper collection.
By the way, your form field is too short for my complete email address.
Great snaps…Wish I could see the real scene from the space…must be looking amazing
if these were taken from space, wouldnt (at the VERY least) the stars in the background be different? or is the earth the only body that rotates in the universe?
This isn’t taken from space, it’s taken with Google Earth, a composite of mostly high-zoom satellite photos. Earth doesn’t look like this from space at night. Even if there were no clouds.
great
this is computer generated. how come there are no clouds of the whole earth?
misleading
This looks like the xplanet night images.
bullshit. There is no way the lights would even be like this. Scandiavia isn’t that populated. There would only be glowing bits around Göteborg, Stockholm, Oslo etc.
this isnt real… who do you think to the photos you idiot
They’re not taken from Space, they’re a 3D model with satellite textures…
lol
Most beautifull planet in our solar system
obviously fake pictures.
Anyone ever heard of “google earth?”
No clouds, no sunlight on any side of the planet ? Faked or a composite, and by the looks of it from Google earth with the night layer on.
I believe this is manipulated picture of the NASA’s earth at night. Look at the stars.
amazing …
lol.. when i saw this, what i thought was light pollution.. beautiful aside, this means we on earth can’t enjoy those amazing nightsky due to all the citylights.. ^^
It looks just like the Halo 3 matchmaking background
amazing thanx for this nice pics, we started to see the world from outside this is a new view , dunno if this is what we want leave the planet, but ok maybe we must leave it!
That’s just Google Earth.
Hey, you have a picture titled as antarctica…it’s actually the arctic. Hard to see in the dark, is it?
Photographs? You have to be kidding right?
quite something. so what organization assembled these? it takes a while to put together photos of earth sans clouds, and earth has apparently been pasted in space. or is it from an enthusiast applying the nasa image to a sphere?
These aren’t taken from space–they’re just rendered images.
we should find a way to inhabit that dead space at the bottom of our planet. jay whitlow, eric y, and sammie volunteer to be the first to build a McDonald’s and a WalMart at the South Pole.
Looks like earth has contracted some sort of skin disease
I would nice if they had these in ultra high def photos that I could put on my desktop….Instead I get a 800 px by 600 px photo that would fit nicely on my 9 inch high def monitor…..Just got to figure out where I put my 9 inch monitor….ooopss…I threw it away like 10 years ago..!!!!!!!!!
Australia is pretty dark, doesn’t seem right..
Sorry to burst your bubble(s), but these aren’t photographs. They nothing more than crappy mockups.
Where is the South America pics?
Even the North Pole is loved more then south Americans
photoshopped
Hmmm… I suppose a polar orbiting satelite could have taken these pictures, but if so, how could all of the background stars be the same in every view?
Google Earth anyone? Not that impressive. I thought it would be real pictures not generated ones.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the fourth picture of the north pole (the Artic Ocean) and not Antarctica, as it’s named?
The fourth picture down is the north pole. And it’s spelled Antarctica. just saying.
Beautiful pictures. They really show the difference between those who have, and those who haven’t.
FAKE
FAKE!
Where are the clouds?
too bad these aren’t real photographs. its just GIS data with white points showing areas of dense population. boo.
The 4th one is not Antarctica, you can clearly see North America and Europe.
Interesting…no clouds
The picture titled Antarctica is the North Pole; not Antarctica.
So your telling me that at the point these pictures were taken there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky?
These aren’t real photos. They must be pieced together from dozens of photos taken over a period of time. There are no clouds people.
i agree, not only because of the lack of clouds, but because i dont think night time ever fell on north America, Europe, and Asia at the same time… still kinda cool tho i guess
these photos are bs as uninhabited areas of the world have lights out the ying yang, and lightly populated areas look like major metro areas. complete dumb ass’ made this
These are nice pics if they were real. Though the earth may be real with pieced together pics, I am pretty sure its a graphical art. the lights on the planet from that distance would not be visible and the stars in the background are for sure added in digitally. The lights you see can be added as an overlay, but themselves are not really lights. I believe its taken with a radioscope that simulates what it would look like had the lights been visible to the naked eye.
Lastly the earth is not purple at night. Its pitch black on the night side taken with any camera.
there are plenty of pictures of space stuff that are altered or just a digital art. alot of what you see in space pictures is even just something like what an xray machine can see and then its colored to look pretty. I know all about pictures. I am a photographer, digital designer, videographer/filmaker, and i have studied and still study astronomy and geology and phsyics and things of that nature. I dont know it all, but I have enough knowledge and education to say what i have said.
what’s wrong with you guys? so what if it’s fake? the main point of these pictures is to show how e earth is populated and distribution of the people. Australia is only mostly populated at the fringes, thus the darkness in the middle.
even national geog has used these pictures in their atlas. so why are you all so worked up over them?
geez.
it does look like google earth
its look pretty when your viewing
night zone
The above images are actually composites of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites.
Those photos very fake… Americans must be stupid.
Like all Russians I have my chance make recent voyage into space in glorious Soyuz capsule I snap this photo of what Earth really look like in space at night.
http://portunus.net.nz/rtfm/erf.png
You @!#$#*) idiots… have any of you ever heard of telescopes?? So what if there are no clouds? It’s called magnification. These shots could easily have been taken THROUGH the clouds. It’s called modern technology. Combine that with a composite of thousands of pictures, and voila! You get these pics. Saying that they’re pictures in this sense is not wrong. And I don’t see the part where the post says that each of these is a SINGLE picture… sometimes I wonder if there’s any intelligence at all on the internet…
The images shown aren’t magnifed, they’re reduced, so it has nothing to do with telescopes or magnification at all.
There’s no satellite in existence that can see through clouds, the images shown are rendered from NASA’s “Campfires” images, which in turn are modified versions of their “Visible Earth” series, so at least you were right about something.
However the Visible Earth images are taken in daylight and assembled from carefully chosen images and edited by hand to rid the resulting map of any cloud cover that might remain. No high-tech wizardry somehow made them invisible and to suggest that is insulting to the people who spent time compiling and editing the images by hand.
For someone who goes around calling other people idiots, I’m surprised you didn’t notice that in addition to there not being any clouds, there is some kind of backlight illuminating the Earth, The world doesn’t glow from within, so what is lighting it up? The answer is nothing, the dark side of the Earth is pitch black. The images on this page were created from day images and the lights were added by hand.
The blurb describes the images as “photographies”, they are clearly not photographs, so you’re wrong again. Asserting your own intellect aggressively while being consistently wrong yourself is a sign that you’re naive, and don’t realize how much you don’t know. How old are you? 12?
looks real tight
How is it possible that no clouds are there in the entire continents ? Anyway, its a good piece of art performed on satelite pictures.
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