interesting picture

[Bob]

curious to how they did it ..its a 24hr cycle round the planet yeh so that its always night where the satellite camera is or am I missing something.

and I believe the populated areas of Australia are minute compared to the outback/bush

The satellite is stationary on the drak side of the earth and just takes one constant photo

It would be multiple photos taken from the satellite and fitted together in a GIS programme.

A satellite in geostationary (35,786 km above the earth so stays in a syncronised orbit with a specific point on the surface) orbit would not be able to see the entire planet (think GPS), then again it could have been a group of satellites that took the data imagery.

just finished a course on in at Uni and god was it boring

 

[no-infernomark]

i was gonna say how come its all dark? when we in darkness others are in light?

 

[Tom37]

well it looks like antarctica has a fantastic night life..... but apart from that, im surpresed china isnt more illuminated

 

[Karlito]

The thing that got me was the random white dots that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere!

 

[Todorov]

The thing that got me was the random white dots that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere!

ALIENS?

 

[JoeJr]

ooooo i can see my house from up there

 

[Raffles]

Stop waving you poser

I wonder if you can 'see' area-51 from there

 

[yatesy]

The little random lights in the middle of the oceans are small countries.

 

[Willeh]

The little random lights in the middle of the oceans are small countries.

O Rly?

 

[Brightley]

Dam northern Russia looks like one hell of a lonely place too live. Also check out Japan dam thats highly populated!!

Tomo