Light pollution across the world (map)

[easynow]

http://www.blue-marble.de/nightlights/2012

 

[easynow]

 

[pastafarian]

blow me!
is Belgium having a party?

 

[easynow]

blow me!
is Belgium having a party?

Very high population density + super bright motorways. And plenty of parties no doubt...haha

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Half of Scotland is in the dark.

 

[Beach Hut]

Half of Scotland is in the dark.

Shame the other half of it is not

 

[pigbite]

Bush fires in Australia

 

[Sea Cider]

How can there be lights in the North Sea brighter than Brighton?

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

How can there be lights in the North Sea brighter than Brighton?

Yeah and check out Australia and Hawaii. Adelaide is back to the stone age apparently. Something a bit suspicious here. In Hawaii we do actually have lighting that's more than the occasional tiki torch. What's that about?

Maybe the satellite flew over during the day. Maybe we have a Stealth invisibility cloak.

 

[Seagull]

Bush fires in Australia

There are barely any people, roads or towns in most of WA. Drove for 2 weeks there once - you wave when you see other cars! Do you think it's fires? Only other thing I can think of is mines or it's just wrong ...

How can there be lights in the North Sea brighter than Brighton?

Oil rigs? Pretty big, mind ... A surreptitious naval assault on Scotland?

 

[beorhthelm]

Yeah and check out Australia and Hawaii. Adelaide is back to the stone age apparently. Something a bit suspicious here. In Hawaii we do actually have lighting that's more than the occasional tiki torch. What's that about?

Hawaii is very, very small relativly. same for Adelaide, and Brighton. those north sea platforms give off a lot of light , a few spaced apart will look larger due to the low resolution of the overall image.

interesting observations, comparison between North and South Korea; and what exactly is going on in North Dakota to create so much light? is that fires too, or is that where the fracking is. Siberia is similarly oddly lit up.

 

[brightn'ove]

blow me!
is Belgium having a party?

check out northern italy, i thought it was just mountains!

 

[Giant Seagull]

interesting observations, comparison between North and South Korea; and what exactly is going on in North Dakota to create so much light? is that fires too, or is that where the fracking is. Siberia is similarly oddly lit up.

That would be the fracking boom around Williston ND. Its gone mental over there in the last 5 years.

 

[blueandwhitestripes]

Some heavy duty schmoking in Puerto Rico :