Comments on: Earth At Night

By: Tracy Malloy

Tracy Malloy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:14:50 +0000

These photos were taken from the DMSP Goddard/NASA images of earth which were gamma radiation images of the earth. Gamma radiation is not visible with the human eye. If this is thousands of images from a photo camera we are familiar with, it was done with a high powered telescopic lense. Most satellites are no more than about 225 miles above the earth and the DMSP satellites were 500 miles above earth. These images look like they are several thousand miles above the earth where there are no satellites. Most readers of this blog are not aware of the lights you can see of the Buffalo Niagara region from Toronto which is about 45 miles from Toronto. The night lights are very hard to see even with good eyesight so these images are not authentic at an altitude of 200-500 miles. The lights from Hamilton a mere 15 miles closer to Toronto are considerably brighter than the ones in an opposite and slightly farther direction in Buffalo. An image 200 miles away would not be visible with the naked eye and maybe not visible with many low powered telescopes either. These look like cut outs placed on a round ball. Note the thin blue perimeter of the globe they forgot to cut out when they pieced this art work together in their basement.

By: MIchael Fournier

MIchael Fournier — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:24:50 +0000

Hey where’s South America? And one from the bottom of the Earth would be nice

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By: Wow

Wow — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:09:36 +0000

Google Earth.

By: sabsam

sabsam — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:59:24 +0000

pls show the brightest and dim cities

By: Leonhart

Leonhart — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:50:38 +0000

It looks a lot like that program “Folding” on the Playstation 3

By: Reditus

Reditus — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:18:39 +0000

These Photos are definatly photoshopped. Look at the stars in the pictures. They are 100% identical. But they are still very amasing to look at

By: caspito

caspito — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:59:58 +0000

um, thats just north america, what about the other half?

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