August 4th, 2006

Turning In And About


4 Responses to “Turning In And About”  

  1. 1 Lex

    That’s obviously been enhanced a bit, but it’s still pretty striking. (You can see “real” photos of night lights in North America (the whole world, in fact) at the NASA site.

  2. 2 Sean Coon

    actually, it hasn’t been enhanced. i got it directly from NASA.

  3. 3 Lex

    We’re both right: NASA says it’s “layered,” which I assumed, given the hemispheric lack of cloud cover. :-)

  4. 4 Sean Coon

    that makes sense… or the hole in the ozone got *really* big overnight.