Earth at night viewed from space.
Timelapse created using images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (ISS053-E-394450-396465 http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
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@wonderofscience Wow, it's strange we don't see any border 😔
@wonderofscience Wonderful and amazing!!! The view of our Earth destroys the flat Earth theory.
@wonderofscience I find the single spots of light in the middle of the desolate sahara desert extremely fascinating. Also the whole lower nile and nile delta is illuminated, while the rest around it is in darkness.
@wonderofscience I recognize Italy's boot. I need a visualization of a classroom globe spinning at the same angle as this to help orient the rest. I'm terrible doing this in my head. Also, this is amazing, thank you for posting!
@ericatty Here is the path taken by the ISS during the timelapse.
@wonderofscience That is perfect. Thank you!!!
@wonderofscience pretty soon california will looklike north korea blackout
@wonderofscience Maybe just me, but I’m pretty offended by the amount of light pollution going on.
@wonderofscience now the real task is to figure out where this is only by the lights and the shape of the countries.
@wonderofscience Heh, the animation took a minute to load. It was just a black square and thought it was a joke toot.
@Xavier @wonderofscience This is the second-funniest thing I read today.
@wonderofscience faaaake ! It's not night everywhere at once !
@wonderofscience … and aurora borealis at the very beginning of the journey!